Extract columns from Excel using Python

Question

I have an Excel file with the ff: row/col structure

ID   English   Spanish   French
 1   Hello     Hilo      Halu
 2   Hi        Hye       Ghi
 3   Bus               


        

Answer 1

import xlrd

sh = xlrd.open_workbook('input.xls').sheet_by_index(0)
english = open("english.txt", 'w')
spanish = open("spanish.txt", 'w')
french = open("french.txt", 'w')
try:
    for rownum in range(sh.nrows):
        english.write(str(rownum)+ " = " +str(sh.cell(rownum, 0).value)+"\n")
        spanish.write(str(rownum)+ " = " +str(sh.cell(rownum, 1).value)+"\n")
        french.write(str(rownum)+ " = " +str(sh.cell(rownum, 2).value)+"\n")
finally:
    english.close()
    spanish.close()
    french.close()