from __future__ import with_statement  # needed only if running Python 2.5
import adodbapi
import datetime
try:
    import adodbapi.is64bit as is64bit
    is64 = is64bit.Python()
except ImportError:
    is64 = False  # in case the user has an old version of adodbapi
if is64:
    driver = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"
else:
    driver = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
filename = 'xx.xls'  # file will be created if it does not exist
extended = 'Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;Readonly=False;"'

constr = "Provider=%s;Data Source=%s;%s" % (driver, filename, extended)

conn = adodbapi.connect(constr)
with conn: # will auto commit if no errors
    with conn.cursor() as crsr:
        try:    crsr.execute('drop table SheetOne')
        except: pass  # just is case there is one already there

        # create the sheet and the header row and set the types for the columns
        crsr.execute('create table SheetOne (Name varchar, Rank varchar, SrvcNum integer, Weight float,  Birth date)')

        sql = "INSERT INTO SheetOne (name, rank , srvcnum, weight, birth) values (?,?,?,?,?)"

        data = ('Mike Murphy', 'SSG', 123456789, 167.8, datetime.date(1922,12,27))
        crsr.execute(sql, data)  # write the first row of data
        crsr.execute(sql, ['John Jones', 'Pvt', 987654321, 140.0, datetime.date(1921,7,4)])  # another row of data
conn.close()
print(('Created spreadsheet=%s worksheet=%s' % (filename, 'SheetOne')))