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Re:Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consist... by michaelmior on Monday December 12, 2016 @06:42AM (#13157366)
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].

[0] https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consist... by rgacote on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:49PM (#13162784)
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
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Re:Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consist... by michaelmior on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:23AM (#13167966)
Curious if you've tried tablib. I haven't used either, but knowing kenneth_reitz tablib is quality :)
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