Python Excel Library Benchmark Comparison

15 Oct 2014 https://github.com/swistakm/python-excel-benchmarks

benchmark_csv                  0.026495
benchmark_excellent            1.784107
benchmark_openpyxl             2.897072
benchmark_openpyxl_rows        7.025895
benchmark_pyexcelerate         0.550225
benchmark_xlsxcessive          1.430242
benchmark_xlsxwriter           1.611668
benchmark_xlwt                 1.275144

http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/working_with_memory.html

pyexcelerate          :  10.11
xlwt                  :  15.67
xlsxwriter (optimised):  19.70
xlsxwriter            :  23.50
openpyxl   (optimised):  95.82
openpyxl              :  95.90