On Apr 1, 3:34 am, Wayne <infotech...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > My town office uses Microsoft operating system. They have a proprietary > accounting system that uses excel for their accounting reports. > I would like to read these report and reproduce the report so that > the report can be seen on the web. I was thinking about using xlrd and > xlwt along with some sort of software for building the web pages. I > use linux only and do not use Microsoft. > Q. Does python have to be installed on there computer to run the script? > > Q. Am I approaching this the wrong way? If so, what would be a better > approach?
Wayne, check out google group python-excel. They are very helpful there, and I believe there are threads on how to compile what you are looking for into a .exe for just such a situation (Disclaimer: I am far from an expert, so I may have misunderstood from the python-excel thread if python is/isn't required on the target machine once the .exe is built, but try that group - John Machin is very responsive) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list