[Qgis-user] XYtools needs Excel python modules

[Alister Hood]

Hi,

> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:39:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Healthmaps <rhoskins at u.washington.edu>
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Qgis-user] XYtools needs Excel python modules
> Message-ID: <1344728342654-4994635.post at n6.nabble.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> 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!

If you are Windows, the packages python-xlrd and python-xlwt should be available in the OSGeo4W installer - you shouldn't need to manually install them yourself.

Regards,
Alister