Parsing Excel spreadsheets

[John Machin]

On Dec 31, 5:48 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 10:07 am, "andyh... at gmail.com" <andyh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Can anybody recommend an approach for loading and parsing Excel
> > spreadsheets in Python. Any well known/recommended libraries for this?
>
> > The only thing I found in a brief search was http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm,
> > but I'd rather get some more input before going with something I don't
> > know.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Andy.
>
> If you need complete control of Excel, then you'll probably have to
> use COM (see Mark Hammond's PyWin32 package). Otherwise, the
> suggestions by the others will work.

For avoidance of doubt, the OP should presume that you mean the *nett*
suggestions by the others i.e. after Tino struck out pyExcelerator.