I would agree with the author, pyExcelerator is good at writing Excel but xlrd is better at reading. I was recently forced to use them in tandem because pyExcelerator had problems reading an Excel sheet and xlrd had no problems.
greetings, Richard Sharp John Machin wrote: > On 23/03/2006 9:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have just installed PyExcelerator, and now want to use it to read > > Excel spreadsheets with a variable number of rows and columns and with > > multiple sheets. Unfortunately, no documentation seems to accompany > > PyExcelerator. Does anyone know of a good source of documentations > > and/or examples? The author provides some examples, but these tend to > > involve writing data into spreadsheets one cell at a time. > > > > Thomas, > Look at pyExcelerator's tools/xls2*.py for examples > or > Look at the xlrd package (which doesn't *write* xls files, but does read > them tolerably well -- even if I do say so myself -- and has documentation). > http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd > > What do you mean by "with a variable number of rows and columns"? > > Cheers, > John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list