Creating dictionary of items from Excel with mutliple keys

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 6:43:54 AM UTC+12, Michael Selik wrote:
> Rather than using xlrd or other tools to read from excel, can you save the
> file as CSV (comma-separated values)? I think you'll find Python's csv
> module is very pleasant to use.

Trying to use Python as a substitute for VBA is not a recipe for happiness.