title: Creating excel chart from text file
body: <p>I am running a simulation that saves some result in a file from which I take the data I need and save it in </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>result.dat</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SAN.statisticsCollector.Network Response Time
  Min: 0.210169
  Max: 8781.55
  average: 346.966666667
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I do all this using python, and it was easy to convert result.dat into an excel file using xlwt. The problem is that creating charts using xlwt is not possible. I than came across Jpype, but installation on my ubuntu 12.04 machine was a headache. I'm probably just being lazy but still - is there any other way, not necessarily python-related, to convert result.dat into an excel file with charts?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks </p>
  
  <p>P.s the file I want to create is a spreadsheet, not Microsoft's Excel!</p>