xlrd Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files Extract data from new and old Excel spreadsheets on any platform. Pure Python (2.1 to 2.6). Strong support for Excel dates. Unicode-aware. http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm John Machin e3fe04d9feff6e42caf20100a0a9307bc017824d 0.7.1