excel library without COM

[John Machin]

On Jun 5, 1:04 pm, james_027 <cai.hai... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 4, 8:16 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 4, 3:52 pm, yuce <yucete... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > i think this one works pretty nice:http://www.python.org/pypi/xlrd
>
> > Sure does :-) However the "rd" in "xlrd" is short for "ReaD". As
> > Waldemar suggested, "xlwt" ("wt" as in WriTe) is more like what the OP
> > needs.
>
> > Cheers,
> > John
>
> Thanks to all who have contributed. I have one concern though. Many of
> the module seems to be not active anymore? or updated? It is because
> it really stable and has most of the features needed?
>

xlwt is active, stable enough for heavy use, and will get a public
outing Real Soon Now (after xlrd 0.6.1 final, which is expected Truly
Rooly Real Soon Now).