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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wouldn't the csv module be a workable solution?

Yes, which is why I injected Python into the thread. The CSV module in
Python's standard library can read or write either Excel-dialect CSV
or OP's mandatory-double-quoted-string dialect.

To minimize reworking of OP's existing tools (which generate .xls or
.xlsx) and eliminate the Excel program itself (as a .xls(x)-to-.csv
translator), Python could be used to read the workbook directly (and
quite trivially), using the xlrd third-party module.

John Y.

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