John> Check out my "xlrd" package. John> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.5.2
... John, Thank you. I wasn't aware of it. I'd seen mention of pyExcelerator a few times recently. All I need is to read Excel spreadsheets anyway. I will check it out. I'm up for reading a good rant. ;-) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list