Python script that writes to an Excel file

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Xns9258A220994F5cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>,
Chris Liechti  <cliechti at gmx.net> 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.
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Excellent advice--that is, it's the best *I* know.

Excel apparently has several formats it's willing to recognize.
The CSV you've described is only one, but it's the easiest to
recommend.  I don't have confidence in any of the others.
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