[GRASS-dev] Excel read support

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

since Excel files continue to be widely used, it would be a great help to
have direct read support in GRASS, e.g. for easy table joins.

I have found this library (which comes e.g. with Fedora as well as OSGeo4W):
https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt
(main page: http://www.python-excel.org/)

To always go through LibreOffice conversion or other tricks is a bit annoying...
Or am I missing an easy trick?

Markus