Making things simpler...
Chris Withers will be giving a tutorial on "Working with Excel files in Python" at this year's Europython Conference.
The tutorial will cover the xlrd, xlwt and xlutils packages which provide excellent open source tools for reading, writing and manipulating Excel files in pure python with no need to use COM, Windows or Excel itself.
More information can be found on the Europython website.
SimpleUserFolder is a scriptable, subclassable, fully documented and tested user folder implementation.
This release brings new Sphinx documentation, compatibility with Zope 2.12 and a couple of bug fixes.
This package provides a buildout recipe for creating a Zope 2 instance based around a deployment.
This new version checks its own distribution has been pinned and make buildout's checking of versions agnostic of the casing of the distribution name.
This is the first public release of this collection of common patterns for executing commands as sub processes.