Max OSX and Excel

[John Machin]

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 ....?

>
> 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.

>
> I'll love to read some feedback from you on it :)

Perhaps I should post some user feedback on the package's "website" ;-)

Cheers,
John