module for reading/writing Excel spreadsheet files

 pyExcelerator is a Python module that can generate Excel 97/2000/XP/2003
 spreadsheet files. It can also extract data from these files. It supports
 Unicode in Excel files, and can use a variety of formatting features and
 printing options. It can dump Excel and OLE2 compound files. Included are
 simple conversion tools py_xls2html, py_xls2csv and py_xls2txt.