• Install on windows:

  easy_install.exe xlrd
  easy_install.exe xlwt
  easy_install.exe xlutils

• Install on linux:

  pip install xlrd
  pip install xlwt
  pip install xlutils

Basic APIs:

• xlrd.open_workbook('adminup/shop.xlsx') return xlrd.book.Book object

Example codes:

• Simple Open workbook

  import xlrd
   
  xlsfile = xlrd.open_workbook('adminup/shop.xlsx')
  print xlsfile

  output:

  <xlrd.book.Book object at 0x023263B0>

• Get sheets:

  import xlrd
  from xlrd.book import Book
   
  xlsfile = xlrd.open_workbook('adminup/shop.xlsx')
  print xlsfile.sheets()

  output:

  [<xlrd.sheet.Sheet object at 0x02256530>, <xlrd.sheet.Sheet object at 0x022564D0>, <xlrd.sheet.Sheet object at 0x022569F0>]

• dump sheet to get basic informations

  import xlrd
  from xlrd.book import Book
  from xlrd.sheet import Sheet
   
  xlsfile = xlrd.open_workbook('adminup/shop.xlsx')
  for sheet in xlsfile.sheets():
      print '******************************'
      sheet.dump()

  output for sheet1:

  _cell_types: <type 'list'>, len = 8
  _cell_values: <type 'list'>, len = 8
  _dimncols: 4
  _dimnrows: 8
  _first_full_rowx: 3
  
  name: u'Th\xf4ng tin shop'
  ncols: 4
  nrows: 8
  number: 0
  

  output for sheet2:

  _cell_types: <type 'list'>, len = 6
  _cell_values: <type 'list'>, len = 6
  _dimncols: 3
  _dimnrows: 54
  _first_full_rowx: 2
  
  name: u'Danh m\u1ee5c'
  ncols: 3
  nrows: 6
  number: 1

• Get sheet by name: Using http://www.rapidmonkey.com/unicodeconverter/ to convert utf-8 to ASCII(Unicode Escaped) Content

  import xlrd
  from xlrd.book import Book
  from xlrd.sheet import Sheet
   
  xlsfile = xlrd.open_workbook('adminup/shop.xlsx')
  sheet_info = xlsfile.sheet_by_name(u'Th\xf4ng tin shop')
  sheet_cat = xlsfile.sheet_by_name(u'Danh m\u1ee5c')
  sheet_products = xlsfile.sheet_by_name(u'S\u1EA3n ph\u1EA9m')

  Or

  import xlrd
  from xlrd.book import Book
  from xlrd.sheet import Sheet
   
  xlsfile = xlrd.open_workbook('adminup/shop.xlsx')
  sheet_info = None
  sheet_cat = None
  sheet_products = None
  for sheet in xlsfile.sheets():
      if sheet.name == u'Th\xf4ng tin shop':
          sheet_info = sheet
      elif sheet.name == u'Danh m\u1ee5c':
          sheet_cat = sheet
      elif sheet.name == u'S\u1EA3n ph\u1EA9m':
          sheet_products = sheet
  if sheet_info is not None:
      print sheet_info.dump()        

import xlrd
from xlrd.book import Book
from xlrd.sheet import Sheet
nhapkhaufile = 'nhapkhau.xlsx'
xuatkhaufile = 'xuatkhau.xlsx'
constantsfile = 'constants.xlsx'
def parsexls(filename):
    xlsfile = xlrd.open_workbook(filename)
    for sheet in xlsfile.sheets():
        n_cells = sheet.ncols             
        for curr_row in range(sheet.nrows):
            curr_cell = 0
            while curr_cell < n_cells:
                cell_type = sheet.cell_type(curr_row, curr_cell)
                if cell_type == xlrd.XL_CELL_EMPTY:
                    curr_cell += 1
                    continue
                value = sheet.cell_value(curr_row, curr_cell)
                curr_cell += 1
                print value
parsexls(constantsfile)