Decimating Excel files

[Robert Kern]

gonzlobo wrote:
> No, I don't want to destroy them (funny how the word 'decimate' has
> changed definition over the years) :).
> 
> We have a data acquisition program that saves its output to Excel's
> .xls format. Unfortunately, the programmer was too stupid to write
> files the average user can read.

I've had good luck with xlrd. It does not require using COM, Excel, or even Windows!

  http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco