FYI: getting data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet

[alf]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Sometimes I have to feed data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet into
> some Python program. To make that really easy, I've written a small
> example program that connects to a running OpenOffice.org instance and
> reads the data from the currently opened spreadsheet.
> 
> Check out http://www.stuvel.eu/archive/28/ to see the source and
> requirements. It took a lot of digging in the rather complex OOo API
> documentation, but the end result is just as I like it: clean and
> simple. I hope this helps people out!
> 
> Sybren

thx for sharing the experience. Do you know how to save a OO doc into M$ 
Excel format - I have a Python based server running on Linux box and 
need to produce Excel files.

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alf