[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or, you might want to look at two packages: > > xlrd > > pyExcelerator > > The first can "read" .xls files, and the second can write them. I've had > great results with both. >
Hi Gerry, Thanks for the testimonial for xlrd :-) However I don't understand how a reasonable solution to the OP's requirement (translate a tab-separated file to a DBF file with a bit of slicing and dicing on the way) would have anything to do with .xls files, or Excel, or VB ... Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list