Reading an OpenOffice spreadsheet into Python
Sometimes the best way to manage simulation output data is in a spreadsheet. Or the data you want to use is already in a spreadsheet. Before reading it into Python for numerical analysis or plotting, or reading into xmgrace to plot, etc, it is normal to export the spreadsheet to a CSV or tab-separated file. But then you have two files. And if you do something in the spreadsheet you have to export it again and this is inefficient....