1. 去 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2下载xlrd-0.9.2.tar.gz 2. 解压安装，笔者用的macos，直接python setup.py install 3. 使用样例:
import xlrd
book = xlrd.open_workbook(fn)
#多少个sheet
print “the number of worksheets is”, book.nsheets
#每个sheet的名字
print “worksheet name(s):”, book.sheet_names()
#得到第0个sheet
sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)
for rx in range(sh.nrows):
values = sh.row(rx)
for value in values:
print value.ctype, value.value #type(number, text), value