Well, I don't know much python, yet, but I know a csv file when I see one...and an Excel files in not a csv file.
As far as I know, an Excel file is stored probably in binary and in a propriatery format...I doubt very much csv.reader would read that just like that; then again, I know nothing about cvs.reader. A csv file is a comma-separated-file and it is plain text file that humans can read with a simple editor... I think I would skip that part where you make OpenOffice store the file in Excel format and simply save it to plain text. Hope this helps. gsal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
