Hi John, Thanks very much for your reply. And thanks for taking the time to create xlrd... this is a very cool and impressive program!! :-)
I ran your code which gave me this: >>> import sys, xlrd; print sys.version; print xlrd.__file__ 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 30 2006, 13:30:29) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1819)] /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ xlrd/__init__.pyc and as far as I can tell, the runxlrd.py file is located here (where I had drug this folder originally): Macintosh HD/xlrd-0.6.1/scripts/runxlrd.py So if I'm understanding this correctly, xlrd only uses the folder you download (xlrd-0.6.1) and then moves the '__init__.pyc' file to the location mentioned above? I apologize if I don't sound very intelligent with this - I'm completely new to Python. There's definitely no problems or concerns. :-) I'm doing a bit of research to see if this might be something I use down the road at work. Our I/T department is extremely strict as to what we put on employees machines so I want to have a good understanding as to where files are installed so I can let i/T know all the details. One department in particular that I support uses a lot of Excel macros that I wrote quite awhile back. Unfortunately, I've heard that Microsoft is planning on taking VBA out of the next version of Excel on the Mac platform. I don't mind converting everything over to AppleScript but I'm researching other alternatives. I just installed xlrd on my home machine last night and was really impressed with the few things I was able to figure out. While I'm talking about Excel, is there any other program (for Python) that can edit Excel files? Will xlrd ever get this capability (I believe someone mentioned xlwr on another post)? Thanks again for replying to my post and thank you very much for sharing your awesome program! :-) Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
