timmy wrote: > Hello, > > has anybody got any experience opening and manilpulating excel > spreedsheets via python? it seems pythoncom allows this to happen but > i'm a total newb to it. (i usually work in the unix world) > all i need to do, is open the xls files and read values from it.
If you really mean "read" rather than "manipulate", have a look at the xlrd package (of which I'm the author). http://www.python.org/pypi/xlrd BTW, it's pure Python; you can run it on your unix box if you like :-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list