Jorge Vargas wrote: > On 28 Aug 2006 15:50:57 -0700, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jorge Vargas wrote: > > > On 8/28/06, Johanna Pfalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To be more specific, I'm interested in reading in certain rows and > > > > columns > > > > from an excel spreadsheet directly without converting the information > > > > to a > > > > text file. I'd also like to be able to write directly to an excel > > > > spreadsheet from python. > > > > AFAIK there is no Python tool that will let you "write directly to" an > > *existing* xls file -- apart of course from running Excel on Windows > > via COM. > > > > The Pyexcelerator package creates xls files. > > > > > ohh I found a nice tool for that a while ago but I haven't been able to > > > test it. > > > > Because ....? > > > nothing related to it, it's just that I haven't had the time to dive into it. > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_thread/thread/5d0828d7762e3586 > > > http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd > > > http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm > > > > The "rd" in "xlrd" is an abrv8n of "read" -- it doesn't write Excel > > spreadsheets. > > > oh no wonder why with my quick look at the API I didn't saw any write methods > :)
Yup. The CheeseShop entry and the homepage say "to extract data from" right up front -- no false advertising there either :-) > > do you have any plans of implementing wirte or at least read/write of xls > docs? pyexcelerator has already implemented "wirte". What do you mean by "read/write of xls docs"? Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list