converting an Excel (xls) file to a comma separated (csv) file without the GUI

Question

Is there a simple way to translate an XLS to a CSV formatted file without starting the Excel windowed application?

I need to process some Excel XLS workbooks with sc

Answer 1

Use one of portable [Python] libraries:

pyxlreader.sourceforge.net/

sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator

and make extra script layer on top of it.