In Python you probaly best follow a recipe like this. 1 Save the file in Excel as a csv file. 2.Study the reader object of Python's csv module : http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html 3. Read a row for row in in a list, split it on comma, count the elements, the maximum of all these is the number of columns you look for. 4. The number of rows you read is the number of rows in the sheet.
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