The Goal of this project is to create a compressed Database of modern electronic education projects, such as Khan Academy and Hyperphysics, to be stored on moderately sized storage devices for shipment to third-world classrooms without a connection to the internet.
pyXLReader is a multiplatform Python library for reading Excel compatible spreadsheets (.xls). Based on JExcelApi by Andy Khan (http://www.andykhan.com).
...Provides an API to write applications that read Excel documents. The xlreader tool converts data to tab delimited, CSV or SQL inserts. Written in C. Based on the the Java version by Andrew Khan.