[Qgis-user] XYtools needs Excel python modules

[Etienne Tourigny]

Have your tried looking into the tutorial, listed on the main page?


The Tutorial

The notes for the tutorial which covers all three packages can be
downloaded here:

python-excel.pdf | GitHub
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/presentations/python-excel.pdf


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:10 PM,  <rhoskins at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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