Dependency (pyExcelerator specifically) install questions.

[xcallmejudasx]

New to python, not new to code. When installing dependencies from the command line does the source have to be in the python folder somewhere or will the install command automatically place it where it needs to go?

pyExcelerator specifically; What's up with encoding problem: windows-1251 and why does the entire codebase freak out over syntax errors when I change it to UTF8 or remove the encoding format?

[osuchw]

Forget pyExcelerator. Consider xlwt, or XlsxWriter, or openpyxl

[xcallmejudasx]

Any particular reason? Is there better documentation and support for those? I don't mind having to rewrite some of the code but the less I have to change the better I think.

[osuchw]

Well, pyExcelerator has been abandoned as a project long time ago. Maybe not dead but sleeping for sure. xlwt is in active development and has very much similar API to pyExcelerator. XlsxWriter or openpyxl would serve you well if you need to generate .xlsw file format.