ben- <be************@epita.fr> wrote in message news:<20040315214043.2814f549.be************@epita .fr>...
I want to import and export Microsoft Excel files.
Are there libraries for this ?
If someone have advices to give, I'm interested !
There are three approaches to this:
1) If you have a machine with Excel installed, you can
use pywin32 to automate the application to extract
cells or ranges or to save the data as CSV or XML etc.
2) If you are in a position to do so, you could require
that the originator of the data (might be you) save
it as CSV or XML or some other format which Python can
easily read. Obviously, you might lose information
that way: depends on what the requirement is.
3) You can investigate the work done by others on the
Excel file format and do something equivalent in
Python, or wrap an existing solution.
See:
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/devel/docs/excel/
Don't know how difficult this might be, but
if you did it you'd not only answer your own question,
but you'd also be able to respond to future requests
by saying: look at
http://...
HTH
TJG
