Developement Question?

[MRAB]

Wayne wrote:
> My town office uses Microsoft operating system. They have a proprietary
> accounting system that uses excel for their accounting reports.
> I would like to read these report and reproduce the report so that
> the report can be seen on the web. I was thinking about using xlrd and
> xlwt along with some sort of software for building the web pages. I
> use linux only and do not use Microsoft.
> Q. Does python have to be installed on there computer to run the script?
> 
If you can copy the spreadsheet files to your machine then you can run the
script on your machine.

> Q. Am I approaching this the wrong way? If so, what would be a better
> approach?
>