Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-22 Thread Kirk Bailey
here s one line from a spreadsheet, as saved in python; [text:u'Bob Dobbs', number:0.0, number:1.0, text:u'n/0!', number:0.0, number:0.0, number:0.0, number:0.0, number:0.0, number:0.0] [text:u'Connie Dobbs', number:22.0, number:4.0, number:0.17001, number:11.0, number:0.5, number:6.0,

Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Kirk Bailey wrote: > I extracted cell 0,0 and it is > >>> x > u'Bob Dobbs' > >>> > > So I did this: > >>> str(x) > 'Bob Dobbs' > >>> > >>> b[1:-1] > 'ob Dobb' > >>> > oops... well,then i did this > >>> print b > Bob Dobbs > >>> > which is as I need it. any use to the rest of the list? You

Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-20 Thread Kent Johnson
Kirk Bailey wrote: > ok, I installed XLRD and can load a xls file; it works quite well BTW. Now > it is returning Unicode objects. I need to strip that to a simple string > value. Is there a recommended way or module for handling Unicode objects? What kind of characters are in the Excel file? Wh

Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-20 Thread Kirk Bailey
ok, I installed XLRD and can load a xls file; it works quite well BTW. Now it is returning Unicode objects. I need to strip that to a simple string value. Is there a recommended way or module for handling Unicode objects? Kirk Bailey wrote: > Ii want to read a xls file and use the data in part

Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-15 Thread John Fouhy
Really? What are you having trouble with? I have used pyexcelerator under Windows without problems. -- John. On 16/08/07, Kirk Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looks good. works bad; this is a windows workplace. ouch. Advice please > (other than change operating systems)? > > John Fouhy wro

Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-15 Thread Eric Walker
Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Kirk Bailey" wrote > Ii want to read a xls file and use the data in part of it. What > module > would help make sense of one? If the data is straighforward you might find it easier to save it as a csv file first. But otherwise there is a module calle

Re: [Tutor] xls file

2007-08-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Kirk Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Ii want to read a xls file and use the data in part of it. What > module > would help make sense of one? If the data is straighforward you might find it easier to save it as a csv file first. But otherwise there is a module called pyexcelerator (I th