Parsing Excel spreadsheets

[andyhume at gmail.com]

Hi,

Can anybody recommend an approach for loading and parsing Excel
spreadsheets in Python. Any well known/recommended libraries for this?

The only thing I found in a brief search was http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm,
but I'd rather get some more input before going with something I don't
know.

Thanks,
Andy.