Reading Excel file from python in Linux

Excel is the most widely used application in MS-Office suite. It all most ubiquitous in every platform. Today a colleague of mine want me dealing with a excel file to retrieve some content in the Excel file. So, the first thing come to my mind is can this be done by python, and under my ubuntu box? Then, I found this xlrd project. Basically, xlrd provides the reading Excel file capabilities for programmer. Hence, we can extract the data from Excel file very easily. Xlrd also support Excel 2007.

參考來源： Lingfo - xlrd extension (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)