As a buddy of mine always says "the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from". Take CSV files for example. CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than ...

In addition, you can convert all the sheets in one pass by specifing a %d or a %s format specifier in the output file name: $ python ssconverter.py file1.xls file1-%d.csv $ python ssconverter.py file1 ...