module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files - doc

 This package provides a pure Python module for writing spreadsheet files
 readable by Excel 97/2000/XP/2003, OpenOffice.org Calc, and Gnumeric. Excel
 spreadsheets can be generated on any platform without needing Excel or a COM
 server.
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 Xlwt is a fork of the unmaintained pyExcelerator module with several
 bugfixes and enhancements. For the functionality previously provided by the
 parse_xls function, see the python-xlrd package.
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 This package provides the documentation.