Pivot Table/Groupby/Sum question

[petr.jakes.tpc at gmail.com]

> Yes, I realize Excel has excellent support for pivot tables.  However,
> I hate how Excel does it and, for my particular excel files, I need
> them to be formated in an automated way because I will have a number
> of them over time and I'd prefer just to have python do it in a flash
> than to do it every time with Excel.
>

Patrick,

Few more questions:
- Where the data come from (I mean: are your data in Excel already
when you get them)?

- If your primary source of data is the Excel file, how do you read
data from the Excel
  file to Python (I mean did you solve this part of the task already)?

Petr