Python script that writes to an Excel file

Chris Liechti cliechti at gmx.net
Sat Jul 27 09:55:11 EDT 2002


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

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