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michaelmior
on Dec 12, 2016
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Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that ...
tablib[0] is one option for Python. There are quite a few libraries that handle export. Excel files (and other Office) file formats are just zip files containing XML. For a while now, this has been an open standard[1].
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https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
rgacote
on Dec 12, 2016
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I've found the Python pyexcel library to be the most flexible option to read/write Excel files.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyexcel/0.0.9
michaelmior
on Dec 13, 2016
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Curious if you've tried tablib. I haven't used either, but knowing kenneth_reitz tablib is quality :)
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[0] https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML