Reading in data from xls files (xlrd package)

xlrd reads data from xls files (Excel spreadsheet file, does not yet support .xlsx!) 


blog with usage examples: http://scienceoss.com/read-excel-files-from-python/

homepage with details: http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm


download most recent installer: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd