[Zope-CMF] xls File Writer!

[Mitch Pirtle]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 13:30, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a product that can help me write excel spreed sheets (xls, and I fear that the
> files can't be XML, or any other format :( ) from zope. I am running a Plone intranet site on Zope
> 2.6.1 with python 2.1 on a Win32 box. The ideal solution would be one that would also work under
> Linux as there are plans to move the server to a Linux box soon enough.

Depends on what kind of spreadsheet you want to generate.  If it is
simply data, one trick I used in the past included outputting CSV with
an .xls extension...  It fools Excel into opening the document as a
spreadsheet, and automatically converts the CSV data on the fly.

YMMV.

-- Mitch