Parsing Excel spreadsheets

Joshua Moore joshua86 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 04:43:59 EST 2009


On Dec 30 2008, 8:07 am, "andyh... at gmail.com" <andyh... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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 washttp://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm,
> but I'd rather get some more input before going with something I don't
> know.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy.

Is saving the spreadsheet as a comma separated file an option for you?
If so, it's not hard to throw something together for cvs files, but
there are even modules for that.

Josh



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