(via http://python.ie/pycon/2013/talks/creating_excel_files_with_python_and_xlsxwriter/)
Speaker: John McNamara
XlsxWriter is a new Python module for creating Excel 2007+ XLSX files.
It supports a wide range of Excel features such as writing numbers, strings dates, formulas and hyperlinks, full cell formatting, charts, autofilters, tables, images, conditional formatting and much more. It uses standard modules and works with Python 2 and 3.
This talk will introduce the module and show how to quickly generate rich Excel reports.
The talk will also show alternative modules such as Xlwt and OpenPyXL.
See also:
https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org
https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/XlsxWriter