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	=== Moderated group === Updated 2009-02-13 This group is moderated. That means that if you are a new member, your messages are reviewed by a moderator before they are published. This is necessary to prevent spam flooding the group. At the time of writing, the group has 313 real members and 102 banned for attempting... more » By John Machin  - Feb 12 2009 - 1 new of 1 message

	eliminating the xlrd1 fork
	I would like to eliminate my `xlrd1` fork, but three issues in `xlrd` must be addressed before I can do this: (1) When I run `xlrd`, thousands of warnings messages spew out. I need some mechanism for suppressing these. It is true that I can currently direct them to a file, but I'd prefer that they not be generated in the first... more » By Phillip M. Feldman  - 1:28pm - 1 new of 1 message

	version number discrepancies
	The Python Package Index lists the current version of xlrd as 0.7.7. When I follow the documentation link and go to [link], however, that document lists a version number of 0.7.3. When I go to [link], I see a version number of... more » By Phillip M. Feldman  - 1:26pm - 1 new of 1 message

	xlrd asserts on my .xls at open_workbook
	Hello people. I have this one excel file full of macros provided for the company which I work which is not being read by xlrd. I want to automate the reading, processing and maybe also writing of this excel file. I can not edit the macros because it is password protected for the developer in our company.... more » By Diego J.  - Jun 1 - 2 new of 2 messages

	Appending a Sheet
	I was able to copy a sheet and change the header data in it. Now I want to append another sheet to the bottom of it. Can someone give me an idea of how to script that? from xlrd import open_workbook,cellname from xlutils.copy import copy rb = open_workbook('D:\\PythonData\ \ ... in.xls') rs = rb.sheet_by_index(0)... more » By JohnC  - May 30 - 2 new of 2 messages

	bug report: Freezing rows/cols does not work with sheets beyond #2
	bug report: Freezing rows/cols does not work with sheets beyond #2 Using the code below, I create an xls file with multiple sheets in exactly the same way. The first two sheets have the first row and column frozen. Sheets 3-5 do not. I expected all sheets to have the same frozen rows and cols.... more » By David Lambert  - May 28 - 3 new of 3 messages

	AssertionError parsing an xls file
	Hi all and thanks for taking the time to read this. I have an Excel workbook that if I try to open it with xlrd version 0.7.7, will always give me the following error: ...Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist -packages/xlrd/__init__.py", line... more » By Alejandro Recarey  - May 25 - 5 new of 5 messages

	XLWT , XLRD , and XLUTILS
	Hello, I am currently trying to download the 3 modules so I can work on Excel using python. I was excited until I had to install them. I am running windows right now. And I am having problem installing the different modules. I red different posts with and the links attached to the answer etc but nothing seems to be working.... more » By Doubster  - May 24 - 9 new of 9 messages

	Making header rows in xlwt
	I'm trying to create a file which repeats certain header rows when printed out. Excel does provide a way to do this, through the Page Setup options (Sheet -> Rows to repeat at top). Frozen rows don't accomplish this, unfortunately, as they don't work in the Page Layout View (in Excel 2007, anyways).... more » By Hannele Kormano  - May 22 - 1 new of 1 message

	Excel & XLRD - How to find extract cell based on text value...
	Hi, I have been looking everywhere to figure out how I can (1) find a row based on the first text value of the row and then (2) confirm that the first row's cell contains the "text" by comparing to a text variable and then take the entire row and store it into a list to be used later in generating a new excel sheet in the format i want.... more » By Phillip Walker  - May 21 - 5 new of 5 messages

	Python message while I Run Excel 2007 Macro (win32)
	Hi Forum, I have started learning Python since last week. Today i tried to automate telnet logging and excel analysis of the log generated using macro and saving the final results to new file. Everything was working very fine.... I got the desired output and all.... but this message while the script was run, is bugging me up. Please tell... more » By Blitz!  - May 18 - 2 new of 2 messages