[Qgis-user] XYtools needs Excel python modules

[Noli Sicad]

> 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