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.
The first release of this library which ties together SQLAlchemy, sqlalchemy-migrate and the component architecture together for easy use in any framework
A new release of this collection of mock objects and helpers for writing unit tests and doc tests, now including full Sphinx-based documentation.
This release adds a checker that lets you record and check the output of arbitrary commands.
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.