Python - Reading a spreadsheet

Question

What I need to know is, can I get Python to read a spreadsheet (preferably Microsoft Excel), then parse the information and input it into an equation?

It's for a horse-racing program, where the information for several horses will be in one excel spreadsheet, in different rows or columns. I need to know if I can run a calculation for each of those horses separately and then calculate a score for the given horse.

Answer 1

My suggestion is:

1. Save the Excel file as a csv comma separated value file, which is a plain text format and much easier to work with.
2. Use Python's built-in csv module to work with the data in csv format.

You can work with Excel files directly in Python (Excel 2003 format supported via the third party modules xlwt, xlrd ) but this is much harder than working with CSV.

Answer 2

OpenPyXL （“用于读取/写入Excel 2007 xlsx / xlsm文件的Python库”）具有非常好的Pythonic API。

Answer 3

Use xlrd package. It's on PyPI , so you can just easy_install xlrd

Answer 4

You can export the spreadsheet as a .csv and read it in as a text file, then process it. I have a niggling feeling there might even a CSV parsing python library.

AFAIK there isn't a .xls parser, although I might be wrong.

EDIT: I was wrong: http://www.python-excel.org/