Python script that writes to an Excel file

[Stephen Boulet]

What if you wanted to do things like make a tabbed spreadsheet (tabs on 
the bottom that break up a notebook int subparts, not '\t'), is this 
possible with csv format?

Chris Liechti wrote:
> keilj_33 at yahoo.com (Jeffrey Keil) wrote in 
> news:67f6bbe5.0207270544.696f6076 at posting.google.com:
> 
> 
>>Greetings:
>>
>>I'd like to have a Python script open a text file, process the data in
>>the text file and then write a report to an Excel file. I'm not sure
>>how I would write to an Excel file from a Python script. Is there any
>>books that would give me details on doing this?
> 
> 
> you could use COM. but i think its simpler to write the output to a text 
> file again. use tabs to separate columns and name it .csv - excel will 
> autodetect the format and load it correctly.
> 
> chris