Trevor Toenjes wrote: > I am looking for a true XLS to ZODB type solution...(python) > without asking users to resave their XLS spreadsheets into CSV(comma > delimited) files for Zope to parse. Perhaps this might be of interest: http://www.xlhtml.org/ (seems to be down atm) converts xls -> html/xml/csv Worked for all (not too complicated) testcases I tried. hth, oliver