openpyxl is a Python library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files. It was born from lack of existing library to read/write natively from Python the Office Open XML format. All kudos to ...
If you're just now coming over to Linux, you might have noticed there are a lot of distributions to choose from. One of your first choices will be what base you want to use. Here's a bit of help.