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

[Chris Withers]

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

cheers,

Chris

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