tablib and pandas seem to be the best libraries for dealing with tabular data. tablib has a really lovely API, whereas pandas is much more memory efficient for doing lots of number crunching.
Perhaps we could include a chapter on processing .xls documents. E.g. use tablib to easily convert an .xls to .csv and then heavy data processing with pandas? Alternatively, just use tablib for everything and mention pandas/other libs as alternatives.
tablib and pandas seem to be the best libraries for dealing with tabular data. tablib has a really lovely API, whereas pandas is much more memory efficient for doing lots of number crunching.
Perhaps we could include a chapter on processing .xls documents. E.g. use tablib to easily convert an .xls to .csv and then heavy data processing with pandas? Alternatively, just use tablib for everything and mention pandas/other libs as alternatives.