Re: How to insert .xls files into database

["John D. Burger" <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

One option is to write a Python translator to create CSV files, or even 
an uploader to go directly from the Excel files to the database.  There 
is at least one module to read Excel files, in all their complexity:

  http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.5.2

and a number of Postgres modules:

  http://wiki.python.org/moin/PostgreSQL

- John Burger
  MITRE