On Jun 5, 9:31 pm, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 06/05/2010 06:47 PM, noydb wrote: > > > Is there a way to save a .xls file (the first worksheet) as a .dbf > > or .csv without opening an instance of Excel with win32com.client > > (been awhile, is this the best module these days for v2.5)? In case a > > computer does not have Excel (2007) installed. > > Use the "xlrd" module[1] > > ############################ > import csv > import xlrd > > FILE_NAME = 'example.xls' > wb = xlrd.open_workbook(FILE_NAME) > > for name in wb.sheet_names(): > out = file('%s.csv' % name, 'wb') > writer = csv.writer(out) > sheet = wb.sheet_by_name(name) > for row in xrange(sheet.nrows): > writer.writerow([ > sheet.cell_value(row, col) > for col in xrange(sheet.ncols) > ]) > out.close() > ############################# > > You say you only want the first sheet, so adjust accordingly. > > -tkc > > [1]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/
Many thanks Tim, this worked well! In the interest of learning, anyone have a XLS to DBF solution? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list