On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Steven W. Orr <ste...@syslang.net> wrote: > Right now, everyone is using Excel from windows to add their entries. I don't > actually know if using anything else (OOO, gnumeric, etc,) would cause > unintended ripples to the files. > > All the devel work that I deal with is done from linux, but I get there mostly > (currently) using W7, putty and cygwin X server.
Tom's suggestion to move to a db backend with a web frontend is sound advice, but will require upfront effort and buy-in from other stakeholders to achieve. If you want to stay invisible and you're willing to run from the windows command line, see http://code.activestate.com/recipes/573471-update-stock-quote-using-yahoo-finance-web-service/ for an example of manipulating Excel spreadsheets using python and win32com. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
