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 was able to install 0.9.2 with: pip install xlrd