Max OSX and Excel

[Jorge Vargas]

On 28 Aug 2006 15:50:57 -0700, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
> Jorge Vargas wrote:
> > On 8/28/06, Johanna Pfalz <Johanna.Pfalz at telus.net> wrote:
> > > To be more specific, I'm interested in reading in certain rows and columns
> > > from an excel spreadsheet directly without converting the information to a
> > > text file.  I'd also like to be able to write directly to an excel
> > > spreadsheet from python.
>
> AFAIK there is no Python tool that will let you "write directly to" an
> *existing* xls file -- apart of course from running Excel on Windows
> via COM.
>
> The Pyexcelerator package creates xls files.
>
> > ohh I found a nice tool for that a while ago but I haven't been able to test it.
>
> Because ....?
>
nothing related to it, it's just that I haven't had the time to dive into it.
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_thread/thread/5d0828d7762e3586
> > http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd
> > http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm
>
> The "rd" in "xlrd" is an abrv8n of "read" -- it doesn't write Excel
> spreadsheets.
>
oh no wonder why with my quick look at the API I didn't saw any write methods :)

do you have any plans of implementing wirte or at least read/write of xls docs?
> >
> > I'll love to read some feedback from you on it :)
>
> Perhaps I should post some user feedback on the package's "website" ;-)
>
that will be nice.
> Cheers,
> John
>
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