This library is forked from pyxl, aka python-excel, aka xlwt + xlrd + xlutils. It allows you to read / write excel97 files directly, no COM or Windows needed. For detailed information, check out the python-excel documentation(http://www.python-excel.org/).

• Image insertation support. Currently PNG and JPEG are supported. Support for other formats is on the schedule.
• Copy sheets from the current workbook or another workbook. Styles information are preserved.
• Copy cells.
• Several bug fixes of the original xlwt.

• Only works with Excel97-2003(xls).
• Python 3 is not supported currently.
• It should just work with python 2.6+. Older versions of python are untested.