Quoting Krishnakant <krmane@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 04:55 +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
>> >
>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+excel
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=excel&submit=search
>>
> Thanks a lot, but I don't use, promote or recommend proprietory
> standards, so Open office is what I am looking for integrating
>> > I know there is a python library called odfpy which can fill up
>> > spreadsheets with data, but I don't know whether similar things are
>> > possible with zope.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Why shouldn't that work?! Zope 2, Zope 3 and Grok allow you to import
>> almost any Python package (as long as it makes sense). So where is the
>> problem?
>>
> But I read that zope has some kind of restricted python.
> So will odfpy integrate?
> Further more, I would like to create my application as a self containing
> package like the plone installer which also installs python, zope and
> other dependencies.
>
> So I really don't know if odfpy will work.
> Or for that matter any library.  May be I am asking this because I am
> very new to all this,
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
There are a couple of things on Zopelabs that may be of interest:

http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1075841024

http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/994090604/1090929950

HTH
Regards
Garry



