Working with MS Excel files from Python
The xlwt Module ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt ) - a Python package for generating Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet files. I have found this module very useful for rapid development. The documentation is currently incomplete, but the package contains a comprehensive set of examples, so you'll most likely start using the module in just 5 minutes. xlwt is a library for generating spreadsheet files that are compatible with Excel 97/2000/XP/2003, OpenOffice.org Calc, and Gnumeric. xlwt has full support for Unicode. Excel spreadsheets can be generated on any platform without needing Excel or a COM server. The only requirement is Python 2.3 to 2.7. The installation is easy. Just unzip the .zip file into a suitable directory, chdir to that directory, then do "python setup.py install". Caveats : The only error I've got is UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128) when trying to write 'str...