[Qgis-user] XYtools needs Excel python modules

[rhoskins at u.washington.edu]

I installed through OSGeo4W. I also uninstalled QGIS and repeated the installation. After trying to install XLRD myself, I managed to get it into the right place in the Python27 folder (with considerable help from Noli - very patient fellow) but no changes. I may have still misunderstood what he told me to do.

XYTOOLS is installed in .qgis\python\plugins\xytools   In .qgis\python\plugins\xytools\docs\index.html I found the following:

"(to use this functionality you should have the python-uno library installed. For Linux you can probably install it via your package manager. On Windows it is harder: you can install it via the normal installer as addition/module, but there seems to be an error with the python path. The plugin cannot find it. If somebody knows a solution for this, please let me know. )"

Are there Windows users who have XYTOOLS installed and reading in Excel files?

Regards, 
Richard

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Alister Hood wrote:

> 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
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>> 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