easy install

[Ethan Furman]

David Robinow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
>>A puzzlement:
>>
>>I used easy_install the other day to get xlutils on my system.  It
>>automatically installed xlrd and xlwt as well.  This is cool.  What's not so
>>cool are my tracebacks.  E.g.
>>
>>Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
>>on win32
>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>--> import xlwt
>>--> xlwt.__name__
>>'xlwt'
>>--> xlwt.__file__
>>'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\xlwt-0.7.2-py2.5-win32.egg\\xlwt\\__init__.pyc'
>>--> xlwt.Workbook().save('non-file')
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> File
>>"c:\docume~1\ethanf\locals~1\temp\easy_install-q1s1rb\xlwt-0.7.2-py2.5-win32.egg.tmp\xlwt\Workbook.py",
>>line 634, in save
>> File
>>"c:\docume~1\ethanf\locals~1\temp\easy_install-q1s1rb\xlwt-0.7.2-py2.5-win32.egg.tmp\xlwt\Workbook.py",
>>line 615, in get_biff_data
>>IndexError: list index out of range
>>-->
>>
>>Anyone know why that is?
>>
>>~Ethan~
>>--
>>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
> 
> You can't save a workbook with no worksheets.
> Try:
> W = xlwt.Workbook()
> W.add_sheet('no-sheet')
> W.save('non-file')

Yes, I know.  I was showing the irritating (at least to me) traceback 
message.

But thanks for trying!  :D

~Ethan~