On 2015-04-15 15:21, Gary Herron wrote: > On 04/15/2015 02:51 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce the release of xlwt 1.0.0. > > What a curiously incomplete announcement. Could you tell us what > xlwt is? I see no hint here.
Heh, this and its sibling package, xlrd, are Python packages for writing and reading MS Excel files. Unlike other Python Excel-manipulation libraries I've encountered, they don't rely on having an installed copy of Excel and can thus run on platforms where Excel doesn't. They've been pretty robust based on my poking at them, have been around a good length of time (meaning more bugs have been worked out), and Chris posts release notes here pretty regularly. Regularly enough that I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time he's omitted the "this is what xlrd/xlwt is" line in his announcement. :-) Thanks to Chris for all the dirty work done mucking around with .xls internals to make these modules. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
