Modifying an existing excel spreadsheet

[John Machin]

On Dec 21, 8:56 am, Ed Keith <e_... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a user supplied 'template' Excel spreadsheet. I need to create a new excel spreadsheet based on the supplied template, with data filled in.
>
> I found the tools herehttp://www.python-excel.org/, andhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/. I have been trying to use the former, since the latter seems to be devoid of documentation (not even any docstrings).

pyExcelerator is abandonware. Use xlwt instead; it's a bug-fixed/
maintained/enhanced fork of pyExcelerator

Read the tutorial that you'll find mentioned on http://www.python-excel.org

Join the google group that's also mentioned there; look at past
questions, ask some more, ...