En Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:52:10 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On Feb 3, 1:43?pm, gonzlobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have a data acquisition program that saves its output to Excel's >> .xls format. Unfortunately, the programmer was too stupid to write >> files the average user can read. >> >> I'd like some advice on how to go about: >> 1. Reading a large Excel file and chop it into many Excel files (with >> only 65535 lines per file) > > An Excel sheet only has 65535 lines. Or do yo mean it has > multiple sheets? As I understand the problem, the OP has a program that generates the .xls files, but it's so dumb that writes files too large for Excel to read. I'd try the "xlrd" package - it is capable of reading Excel files on any platform. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
