Using Python to program MS Office macros?

Question

I\'ve recently taken it as a project to teach myself how to program in Python. Overall, I must say that I\'m impressed with it.

In the past I\'ve typically stuck to

Answer 1

The xlrd, xlwt, and xlutils packages mentioned above can only read and write .xls files which have size limitations of 65,000 rows and 256 columns. Aside from that it is a good tool.

But I have moved on to another python-excel package, OpenPyXL, which can read and write .xlsx files. Also I find it easy to use and the documentation is good.

OpenPyXL: http://packages.python.org/openpyxl/index.html