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 personally dis-advise JExcel if you intent to use anything more then very simple text to excel and vice versa.

the more advanced features are abstracted very leaky from the underlying (basically undocumented) low-level code / (documented) Excel specs.

another problem we ran into is jexcel fails fatally when encountering invalid formulas. and if you need to parse client supplied spreadsheets this is a problem.

also the new POI version support (almost) seemless both xls and xlsx at the same time.