On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, David Holland wrote:
> I know how to open files in python, however what I want to do is select
> some information from an excel spreadsheet and save it as a .dat file.
Hi David,
Excel spreadsheets are a bit more difficult to work with. They're not
plain text files, but have their own internal binary format, so you'll
probably need a library to deal with them. Many people deal with Excel by
either converting the files to something plain-textish, like the 'csv'
format, or they get Python to talk to Excel directly.
If you can output your excel spreadsheet in 'csv' format, then Python's
'csv' module should be useful:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-csv.html
and doing the selection should just be a matter of skipping enough rows,
in the file, and then paying attention to the particular column you want.
But if you want to go another route --- to talk closely with Excel ---
that might take some more involvement, since it's so tightly bound with
Windows programming. The book "Python Programming on Win32" has a
chapter on how to talk to Excel through Python:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/
and if you're interested in this approach, you may want to talk with the
python-win32 folks:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Hope this helps!
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