Modify excel file in python on linux enviroment

how do i insert few row in an existing excel file using python? the excel file maybe b开发者_如何学Ce of any excel version. On windows that could have been possible by using win32com.client...but i need to make the changes in the linux environment. how can i do it?

you can use pyExcelerator. the package comes with example demos to write excel files

I'm looking into this myself and found https://bitbucket.org/ericgazoni/openpyxl/wiki/Home . It is a new library that allows editing xlsx files.