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pyexcelerator(1)


NAME

   pyexcelerator - a module for reading/writing Excel spreadsheet files

SYNOPSIS

   pyexcelerator

DESCRIPTION

   This  manual  page  was written for the Debian distribution because the
   original program does not have a manual page.

   pyExcelerator  is   a   Python   module   that   can   generate   Excel
   97/2000/XP/2003  spreadsheet files. It can also extract data from these
   files.  It supports Unicode in Excel files, and can use  a  variety  of
   formatting  features  and  printing options. It can dump Excel and OLE2
   compound files.

   Numerous examples of usage can be found in the examples/ directory.

   Additions utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.

OPTIONS

   This program does not take any command line options.

AUTHOR

   pyexcelerator was written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.

   This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner  <kcoyner@debian.org>  for
   the  Debian  system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted
   to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of  the
   GNU  General  Public  License, Version 2 any later version published by
   the Free Software Foundation.

   On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License
   can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

SEE ALSO

   py_xls2csv(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)

                           October 12, 2006               PYEXCELERATOR(1)



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