>>> import xlrd
>>> help(xlrd)
Help on package xlrd:

NAME 
 xlrd

PACKAGE CONTENTS 
 biffh
 book
 compdoc
 formatting
 formula
 info
 licences
 sheet
 timemachine
 xldate
 xlsx

FUNCTIONS 
 count_records(filename, outfile=<idlelib.PyShell.PseudoOutputFile object at 0x0287E730>)

 dump(filename, outfile=<idlelib.PyShell.PseudoOutputFile object at 0x0287E730>, unnumbered=False)

 open_workbook(filename=None, logfile=<idlelib.PyShell.PseudoOutputFile object at 0x0287E730>, verbosity=0, use_mmap=1, file_contents=None, encoding_override=None, formatting_info=False, on_demand=False, ragged_rows=False)

DATA 
 FMLA_TYPE_ARRAY = 4
 FMLA_TYPE_CELL = 1
 FMLA_TYPE_COND_FMT = 8
 FMLA_TYPE_DATA_VAL = 16
 FMLA_TYPE_NAME = 32
 FMLA_TYPE_SHARED = 2
 MMAP_AVAILABLE = 1
 USE_MMAP = 1
 XL_CELL_BLANK = 6
 XL_CELL_BOOLEAN = 4
 XL_CELL_DATE = 3
 XL_CELL_EMPTY = 0
 XL_CELL_ERROR = 5
 XL_CELL_NUMBER = 2
 XL_CELL_TEXT = 1
 __VERSION__ = '1.0.0'
 biff_text_from_num = {0: '(not BIFF)', 20: '2.0', 21: '2.1', 30: '3', ...
 empty_cell = empty:''
 error_text_from_code = {0: '#NULL!', 7: '#DIV/0!', 15: '#VALUE!', 23: ...
 oBOOL = 3
 oERR = 4
 oNUM = 2
 oREF = -1
 oREL = -2
 oSTRG = 1
 oUNK = 0
 okind_dict = {-2: 'oREL', -1: 'oREF', 0: 'oUNK', 1: 'oSTRG', 2: 'oNUM'...

FILE 
 c:\python34\lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py

import xlrd

# 获取一个Book对象
book = xlrd.open_workbook("1.xls")

# 获取一个sheet对象的列表
sheets = book.sheets()

# 遍历每一个sheet，输出这个sheet的名字（如果是新建的一个xls表，可能是sheet1、sheet2、sheet3）
for sheet in sheets: 
 print(sheet.name)

import xlrd

# 获取一个Book对象
book = xlrd.open_workbook("1.xls")

# 获取一个sheet对象的列表
sheets = book.sheets()

# 遍历每一个sheet，输出这个sheet的名字（如果是新建的一个xls表，可能是sheet1、sheet2、sheet3）
for sheet in sheets: 
 print(sheet.cell_value(0, 0))

sheet.cell(row, col) # 获取单元格对象 
sheet.cell_type(row, col) # 获取单元格类型 

from datetime import datetime 
from xlrd import xldate_as_tuple

# 获取一个Book对象
book = xlrd.open_workbook("1.xls")

# 获取一个sheet对象的列表
sheets = book.sheets()

timeVal = sheets[0].cell_value(0,0)

timestamp = datetime(*xldate_as_tuple(timestamp, 0))

print(timestamp)

rows = sheet.get_rows() 
for row in rows: 
 print(row[0].value) # 输出此行第一列的数据