Reading OpenOffice spreadsheet in Python?

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:08:06 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I don't have Windows and since upgrading my Mac to Mavericks I no
> longer have Excel of any flavor. I have a few Excel spreadsheets in
> which I store parameters from which I generate other config files. I
> read those spreadsheets using xlrd.

> I am so fed up with LibreOffice's inability to properly support really
> basic Excel capabilities, I'm about ready to throw my computer out the
> window.

Another possibility: Use google drive/docs spreadsheet capability.
Makes much less mess than libreoffice and will export to standard formats