getting error...... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 370, in open_workbook biff_version = bk.getbof(XL_WORKBOOK_GLOBALS) File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-pack

[JodyGnumeric]

On Dec 8, 5:54 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 6:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
>
>
> > En Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:31:01 -0200, pk sahoo <prasannaksa... at gmail.com>  
> > escribió:
>
> > > hallo everybody,
> > > when i am running the following command
>
> > >>>> import xlrd
> > >>>> book=xlrd.open_workbook("C:\\a.xls")
>
> > > i am getting the following error..
>
> > > *Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 370, in
> > > open_workb
> > > ook
> > >     biff_version = bk.getbof(XL_WORKBOOK_GLOBALS)
> > >   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 1323, in
> > > getbof
> > >     raise XLRDError('Expected BOF record; found 0x%04x' % opcode)
> > > xlrd.biffh.XLRDError: Expected BOF record; found 0x3f3c*
>
> > Looks like your a.xls file is not an Excel file (one of the formats  
> > supported by xlrd).
> > As 0x3f3c corresponds to the characters '<?' you probably have an XML file.
>
> This can be verified easily by opening the file with a simple-minded
> text editor (e.g. Notepad) ... if the first two lines are
> """
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>
> """
> then it's an Excel 2003 XML Spreadsheet that's been manually(?)
> renamed from .xml to .xls.
>
> The current xlrd release supports only the binary ("BIFF") format .xls
> files created by Excel 3.0 to Excel 2003. The next release (due out
> Real Soon Now) will support Excel 2.1 and 2.0 formats [don't ask].
> Very soon after that will come support for Excel 2007 .xlsx which is a
> bunch of XML files inside a ZIP file. Support for Excel 2003
> "SpreadsheetML" is way down the to-do list.
>
> If the OP wants to be able to read the file with xlrd:
> (1) Open it with Excel 200[37] and save as a .xls file
> or (2) rename it to .xml, start OpenOffice.org Calc, click on File,
> click on Open, click on "Files of type", choose "Microsoft Excel 2003
> XML (*.xml)" from the (long, unsorted) drop-down list, ..., and save
> as etc etc. Gnumeric is not an option.
>
> HTH,
> John

Gnumeric can read this format. 'MS Excel (tm) 2003 SpreadsheetML'