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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd'> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=us-ascii' /> <title>xlwt README</title> </head> <body> <p><h3>Python package "xlwt"</h3> </p> <p><b>Purpose:</b> Provide a library for developers to use to generate spreadsheet files compatible with Microsoft Excel versions 95 to 2003. </p> <p><b>Maintainer:</b> John Machin, Lingfo Pty Ltd (sjmachin@lexicon.net) </p> <p><b>Licence:</b> BSD-style (see licences.py) </p> <p><b>Version of xlwt:</b> 0.7.2 </p> <p><b>Version of Python required:</b> 2.3 to 2.6 </p> <p><b>External modules required:</b> None </p> <p> The package itself is pure Python with no dependencies on modules or packages outside the standard Python distribution. </p> <p><b>Quick start:</b> </p> <pre><code>import xlwt from datetime import datetime style0 = xlwt.easyxf('font: name Times New Roman, color-index red, bold on', num_format_str='#,##0.00') style1 = xlwt.easyxf(num_format_str='D-MMM-YY') wb = xlwt.Workbook() ws = wb.add_sheet('A Test Sheet') ws.write(0, 0, 1234.56, style0) ws.write(1, 0, datetime.now(), style1) ws.write(2, 0, 1) ws.write(2, 1, 1) ws.write(2, 2, xlwt.Formula("A3+B3")) wb.save('example.xls') </code></pre><p> </p> <p><b>Installation:</b> </p> <ul> <li> Any OS: Unzip the .zip file into a suitable directory, chdir to that directory, then do "python setup.py install". </li> <li> If PYDIR is your Python installation directory: the main files are in PYDIR/Lib/site-packages/xlwt, docs are in the doc subdirectory. </li> <li> If os.sep != "/": make the appropriate adjustments. </li> </ul> <p><b>Download URLs:</b> </p> <ul><li>Packaged: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt </li> <li>SVN: https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlwt/trunk </li> </ul> <p><b>Documentation:</b> </p> <p> Documentation can be found in the 'doc' directory of the xlwt package. If these aren't sufficient, please consult the code in the examples directory and the source code itself. </p> <p><b>Problems:</b> </p> <p>Try the following in this order:</p> <ol> <li>Read the source</li> <li>Ask a question on http://groups.google.com/group/python-excel/</li> <li>E-mail the xlwt maintainer (sjmachin at lexicon.net), including "[xlwt]" as part of the message subject.</li> </ol> <p><b>Acknowledgements:</b> </p> <ul><li> xlwt is a fork of the pyExcelerator package, which was developed by Roman V. Kiseliov. "This product includes software developed by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>." </li> <li> xlwt uses ANTLR v 2.7.7 to generate its formula compiler. </li> <li> << a growing list of names; see HISTORY.html >>: feedback, testing, test files, ... </li></ul> </body> </html>