code: def ParseExcelXMLFile(filename):
          
  
          excelfile = ExcelFile()
          excelHandler = ExcelToSparseArrayHandler(excelfile)
          parse(filename, excelHandler)
          return excelfile
docs: parse an excel file
  
                  typical usage:
  
                  import exceldump;
                  xl = exceldump.ParseExcelXMLFile("SomeExcelFile.xml")
                  worksheet = xl.GetWorksheets(0) # get first worksheet
                  print worksheet.GetCellValue(1,1) # print contents of cell A1