save xls to csv/dbf without Excel/win32com.client

[noydb]

On Jun 5, 9:31 pm, Tim Chase <python.l... at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 06/05/2010 06:47 PM, noydb wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to save a .xls file (the first worksheet) as a .dbf
> > or .csv without opening an instance of Excel with win32com.client
> > (been awhile, is this the best module these days for v2.5)?  In case a
> > computer does not have Excel (2007) installed.
>
> Use the "xlrd" module[1]
>
> ############################
> import csv
> import xlrd
>
> FILE_NAME = 'example.xls'
> wb = xlrd.open_workbook(FILE_NAME)
>
> for name in wb.sheet_names():
>    out = file('%s.csv' % name, 'wb')
>    writer = csv.writer(out)
>    sheet = wb.sheet_by_name(name)
>    for row in xrange(sheet.nrows):
>      writer.writerow([
>        sheet.cell_value(row, col)
>        for col in xrange(sheet.ncols)
>        ])
>    out.close()
> #############################
>
> You say you only want the first sheet, so adjust accordingly.
>
> -tkc
>
> [1]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/

Many thanks Tim, this worked well!

In the interest of learning, anyone have a XLS to DBF solution?