Which library should I use to write an XLS from Linux / Python?

Question

I\'d love a good native Python library to write XLS, but it doesn\'t seem to exist. Happily, Jython does.

So I\'m trying to decide between jexcelapi and Ap

Answer 1

I'd use JExcelApi, but only because I've used it before. Never have touched HSSF. Biggest show-stopper I can recall is JExcelApi doesn't support multiple formats in one cell (e.g. half the text in bold, the other half in italic or something like that). I think in general JExcelApi is more limited than HSSF, but the limitations never got in my way.

And yes, documentation is sparse for the interface (and nonexistent for the underlying mechanisms), but I thought it was doable...