gonzlobo wrote: > No, I don't want to destroy them (funny how the word 'decimate' has > changed definition over the years) :). > > We have a data acquisition program that saves its output to Excel's > .xls format. Unfortunately, the programmer was too stupid to write > files the average user can read.
I've had good luck with xlrd. It does not require using COM, Excel, or even Windows! http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
