Jorge Vargas wrote: > On 8/28/06, Johanna Pfalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To be more specific, I'm interested in reading in certain rows and columns > > from an excel spreadsheet directly without converting the information to a > > text file. I'd also like to be able to write directly to an excel > > spreadsheet from python.
AFAIK there is no Python tool that will let you "write directly to" an *existing* xls file -- apart of course from running Excel on Windows via COM. The Pyexcelerator package creates xls files. > ohh I found a nice tool for that a while ago but I haven't been able to test > it. Because ....? > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_thread/thread/5d0828d7762e3586 > http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd > http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm The "rd" in "xlrd" is an abrv8n of "read" -- it doesn't write Excel spreadsheets. > > I'll love to read some feedback from you on it :) Perhaps I should post some user feedback on the package's "website" ;-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
