Need A script to open a excel file and extract the data using autofilter

[David Monaghan]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:42:06 +0100, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>
wrote:

>On 01/10/2011 23:00, David Monaghan wrote:
>>> after opening the text.xls file i need to filter all the rows in which
>>> the status column is passed and copy the whole sheet to another sheet
>>
>> I don't do this often enough to have it to mind, so what I normally do is
>> record a Macro, convert it to VBS and then convert that to Python.
>
>Ouch! Slow, error prone and Windows only ;-)
>
>Please consider using xlrd and described on http://www.python-excel.org

All true! The reason I usually do it like that is I normally only need to do
very simple things and I usually stop at the VBS stage. And I wasn't aware
of xlrd - I'll give it a look.

DaveM