[Qgis-user] XYtools needs Excel python modules

[rhoskins at u.washington.edu]

Noli, Thanks for your reply, but ... OK I downloaded a .tar file, eventually I got a folder 
dist/xlrd-0.8.0/scripts and dist/xlrd-0.8.0/doc & examples and 1000s of words of Python documentation stuff.
I have no idea what to do with what I downloaded. What to I put where to get QGIS XYtools to read Excel files?

Sorry don't mean to be dense/difficult but I have no background in Python, and if that is not required I am missing out otherwise. I am not aware of any other documentation that explains these kinds of issues with plugins.

Thanks for your help -

Richard


On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Noli Sicad wrote:

>> QGIS 1.8 XYtools gives and error message about needing XLW & XLRD Python
>> libraries. I have found the site where they are but I do not understand any
>> of the directions, etc. I am not a Python programmer resulting in my having
>> no clue about one has to do. Can sopmeone point me to directions that will
>> tell me exactly what one is supposed to do and where one does it to get the
>> XYtools Excel pythins working. Same for Open Office. Seems the installation
>> process for XYtools should do this. Is there something I missed in the
>> installation? Thanks!
>
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/xytools/
>
> You need to install these packages / modules.
>
> xlrd
> This package is for reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
>
> xlwt
> This package is for writing data and formatting information to Excel files.
>
> You can download these packages / modules here
>
> http://www.python-excel.org/
>
> Noli
>