Working with Excel inside Python

[John Machin]

gblais at cox.net wrote:
> Or, you might want to look at two packages:
>
> xlrd
>
> pyExcelerator
>
> The first can "read" .xls files, and the second can write them.  I've had
> great results with both.
>

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for the testimonial for xlrd :-)

However I don't understand how a reasonable solution to the OP's
requirement (translate a tab-separated file to a DBF file with a bit of
slicing and dicing on the way) would have anything to do with .xls
files, or  Excel, or VB ...

Cheers,
John