Excel Python API

Question

Does anyone know of a way of accessing MS Excel from Python? Specifically, I am looking to create new sheets and fill them with data, including formulae.

Preferably I would like to do this on Linux if possible but can do it from in a VM if there is no other way.

Answer 1

xlwt and xlrd can read and write Excel files, without using Excel itself:

http://www.python-excel.org/