Learn how to read out data from an Excel document using the xlrd Python module. The xlsx and xls file formats are supported.
xlrd docs: http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.html
Type Numbers:
0 - XL_CELL_EMPTY
1 - XL_CELL_TEXT
2 - XL_CELL_NUMBER
3 - XL_CELL_DATE
4 - XL_CELL_BOOLEAN
5 - XL_CELL_ERROR
6 - XL_CELL_BLANK