I realize that this project is about reading excel files. However, if you're creating spreadsheets from python it is worth mentioning that there are 3 differen

I realize that this project is about reading excel files. However, if you're creating spreadsheets from python it is worth mentioning that there are 3 different packages. In my experience: xlwt [1] < openpyxl [2] < XlsxWriter [3] [1] http://www.python-excel.org/ http://www.python-excel.org/ [2] http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/ http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/ [3] https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/ https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/ The docs of XlsxWriter are beautiful.