John Machin wrote: > On 19/03/2006 2:30 PM, Kent Johnson wrote: >>That didn't shed much light. I'm interested in your biased opinion, >>certainly you must have had a reason to write a new package. > > * It's not new. First public release was on 2005-05-15. When I started > writing it, there was no pure-Python Excel reading facility available at > all. Roman Kiseliov's pyExcelerator was first announced on c.l.py.ann > on 2005-03-22 (write only) and later with an import facility on 2005-05-12.
Ah, my mistake, sorry. I didn't recall hearing about xlrd before and jumped to the conclusion that it was new, though your OP is very clear that this is an update release. > * Herewith the biased comparison: Thank you! Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
