Writing to ms excel

[John Machin]

On Aug 31, 11:32 am, Marin Brkic <mbrkic at invalid_mail.adress> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:18:19 -0700 (PDT), John Machin
>
> <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:

> >For Python version 2.[345] on any platform, you can use xlwt, which is
> >as simple as this for writing a 1-worksheet Excel 97-to-2003 XLS file
> >(without any formatting):
>
> Actually, that might work. What I was needing (aiming for) was a way
> to write to excel 2003 files.

"write to a file" has connotations of updating an existing file;
"write a file" or "create a file" are less ambiguous.

>  Formatting is not necessary, since what
> I'm trying to write is some tabular data; results from fortran-python
> simulation (I can explain, but the details seem irrelevant for this
> case).
> I'm trying to avoid the text file - import to excel - mechanism, since
> there is quite a lot of files written.
>
> >I suggest that you join the python-excel group (http://
> >groups.google.com.au/group/python-excel?hl=en) or at least read some
> >of the questions and responses.
>
> Please, one more question. As you have noticed, I posted my message to
> comp.lang.python, using a newsreader.

I hadn't noticed; what makes you think so?

> Is there a way to access google
> groups through a similiar interface program as a newsreader.

I don't know (question has never arisen before).

>  Never
> used them before, and getting a lot of messages to my email every day
> does not sound very appealing to me.

Either (1) you have not looked at the messages at the link that I gave
you or (2) your idea of "a lot of messages" every day differs wildly
from mine. Email alternatives are (a) one message per posting (b)
daily digest (c) none (use your web browser).

HTH,
John