xls to csv converter

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I would use xlrd – it’s faster, cross platform and works directly with the file.

As of version 0.8.0, xlrd reads both XLS and XLSX files.

But as of version 2.0.0, support was reduced back to only XLS.

import xlrd
import csv

def csv_from_excel():
    wb = xlrd.open_workbook('your_workbook.xls')
    sh = wb.sheet_by_name('Sheet1')
    your_csv_file = open('your_csv_file.csv', 'wb')
    wr = csv.writer(your_csv_file, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)

    for rownum in xrange(sh.nrows):
        wr.writerow(sh.row_values(rownum))

    your_csv_file.close()

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