Generating Excel 97+ files with Python 2.4+ (need decorators), importing Excel 95+ files, support for UNICODE in Excel files, using variety of formatting features and printing options, Excel files and OLE2 compound files dumper. No need in Windows/COM
pyXLWriter is a Python library for generating Excel compatible spreadsheets. It's a port of John McNamara's Perl Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 1.0 module (see http://www.cpan.org) to Python. Requires Python 2.1+. [Project was stopped]
"CSV Configurator" is a program which permits to edit a CSV data file and start scripts using this file as parameter via buttons/menu entries which can be customized.
The main purpose of "python2xlw" is to create an Excel-compatible file which can be sent to users via the web as an excel application. The motivation is mainly to support the display of XY Scatter plots and tabular numerical data(eg engineering data)