John Machin wrote: > For that purpose, CSV files are the utter pox and then some. Consider > using xlrd and xlwt (nee pyexcelerator) to read (resp. write) XLS > files directly. xlwt is unreleased (though quite stable, they say) at the moment, so the links are: easy_install xlrd svn co https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlwt/trunk