On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Thomas C. Hicks <para...@pobox.com> wrote: > I am a beginner at all this and never expected to reach a point where > people other than myself may have to have access to the output of one > of my programs. My problem is this - I have written a program that > uses xlrd to read a series of xls files and collate and summarize the > data. My original plan was to then write out that data into another > xlwt spreadsheet that could be updated on a regular basis. I was > thinking of adding a page per month as the data is updated regularly. > > The problem is that xlwt doesn't allow for very convenient addition of > data to a spreadsheet - basically it has to re-create the whole > spreadsheet each time. > > So now I am looking for suggestions of how I can output my data > analysis. I am running Linux but the data needs to be able to be seen > by users of OSX and Windows. I have been reading about GTK and figure > I could output the analysis using that but am not sure it will be > readable under Mac and Windows. Any ideas are welcome! >
Does it have to be a spreadsheet? Will csv files do as well? They are opened transparently in spreadsheet programs. And adding to csv files should be no difficulty as well. BTW, if you're thinking of adding a new sheet to an excel file every month, you should know that there's a limit to the number of sheets you can put in an excel workbook. -- regards, kushal _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
