On Aug 4, 1:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ran your code which gave me this: > > >>> import sys, xlrd; print sys.version; print xlrd.__file__ > > 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 30 2006, 13:30:29) > [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1819)] > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site > -packages/ > xlrd/__init__.pyc
Note that: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ site-packages is actually just a symlink to: /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages While third-party modules do usually go in python2.x/site-packages, Apple don't like users messing about in /System so their stock Python installation keeps third-party modules under /Library instead. The exact location varies depending on OS version: on 10.3 it's / Library/Python/2.3; on 10.4 it's /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages. Modules installed via DistUtils/EasyInstall will be placed in the appropriate location automatically. For more information on installing DistUtils packages, see: http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html > and as far as I can tell, the runxlrd.py file is located here (where I had > drug this folder > originally): > > Macintosh HD/xlrd-0.6.1/scripts/runxlrd.py Nope, DistUtils will copy all modules to site-packages as part of the installation procedure. If you're a developer you'll probably want to keep the original distribution around as it'll contain documentation, examples, etc. which you'll want to refer to when writing your own scripts. End-users of your scripts won't need it though. ([OT] Tip: dumping user files under / is poor etiquette; that's what your home directory under /Users is for.) > While I'm talking about Excel, is there any other program (for Python) that > can edit Excel files? You can script Excel directly from Python via appscript which talks to scriptable Mac apps via the same API as AppleScript: http://appscript.sourceforge.net I don't do any Excel scripting myself, but Matt Neuburg includes a nice example in this article on the Ruby version of appscript (which has a similar syntax): http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2007/02/27/replacing-applescript-with-ruby.html If you need more info just ask. HTH has -- http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
