That is what I'm currently doing (telling users to convert), however users tend to forget to save the file in old format or find it too much a hassle to do the extra step, in which case I would like to be able to read the new format, although I may just trow and error and recommend the user to convert the format, lets see how they take that.
Regards, Carlos Ruvalcaba On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Lang Hurst <l...@tharin.com> wrote: > Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> I was wondering if anyone has worked with excel 2007 files (importing >> data from), I have done so for old format (xls) via a number of >> modules like xlrd and the old pyexcelerator, however none of those >> packages currently support new 2007 format, although xlrd may have >> support for it later. >> >> > > Couldn't you just save it in the older format? > >> Has anyone had to deal with something like this recently?, I'm >> thinking as last resort just work with the underlying XML files of the >> format, but it would be nice to have an already working module. >> >> > > The files I work with are pretty basic, so I just export them as cvs and > work from there. Probably not what you want. > >> Regards, >> Carlos Ruvalcaba >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> >> > > > -- > There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
