Hi John, With reference to your reply to kath http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-October/407157.html
I have a small query, my code is as follows #------- Reading excel---------------------------------- import xlrd book = xlrd.open_workbook("E:/test.xls") print "The number of worksheets is", book.nsheets print "Worksheet name(s):", book.sheet_names() sh = book.sheet_by_index(0) for rx in range(sh.nrows): # print sh.row(rx) val = sh.row(rx) print val #------------------------------------------------------------- Now the results are as follows [text:u'test1\xa0', text:u'text1', xldate:39066.0, number:1234.1] [text:u'test2', text:u'text2', xldate:39066.0, number:1234.2] [text:u'test3\xe9', text:u'text3', xldate:39066.0, number:1234.3] [text:u'test4\xe9', text:u'text4', xldate:39066.0, number:1234.4] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now as you can clearly observe, I want to: 1. Remove the additional tags like text, xldate, number. 2. Display date in normal form like dd-mm-yyyy, or dd/mm/yyyy or may be yyyy-mm-dd . 3. Finally would like remove the spaces and some UNICODE characters, here its being represented as \xe9 or \xa0 Can you please help me out on this. I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Cheers shayana
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