On 01/28/2014 11:43 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:37 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Larry Martell wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>>> Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python >>>> in CentOS 6? >>> >>> I believe xlrd does.: >>> >>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2 >> >> That's 0.9.2. I just installed the latest package from the usual repos, >> and it's python-xlrd-0.6.1-10.el6.noarch, and my user reports that >> doesn't work. Suprises me, that being from Excel 2007, and Libre Office >> reads it fine. I gave that suggestion to him as a workaround - import into >> LibreOffice, and export, but he's trying to automate this. I did see what >> seems to be a perl package, but he's working in python. I think Libre Office can be run from command line, headless, and it can be scripted. Also look at unoconv from RepoForge. I am not sure about .xlsx, .but working with .xls is possible. Maybe automatic conversion older standard then unoconv? -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant