[Tutor] Read Excel file without COM

[bob]

At 01:45 PM 11/29/2005, John Fouhy wrote:
>On 30/11/05, bob <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> > Interesting you ask at the same time I'm researching this question. I found
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator
> > Somewhere I thought I saw a reference to its ability to read Excel
> > files, but I'm having a hard time getting to that. It does a great
> > job writing Excel files.
>
>Yeah, I like pyExcelerator, but the documentation lacks in places :-)
>
>Just call pyExcelerator.parse_xls() on the filename you wish to parse.

Great. That works. But I seem to just get the data. For now that suffices.

  Is there a way to retrieve formatting and other properties?


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