XLS to CSV converter. Very fast, extremely light and easy to use.
Installation: pip install xlstocsv
Complementary package to xlsx2csv(https://github.com/xevo/xls2csv) - great tool, but does not work with .xls files
xlstocsv
works only with xls file (for legacy systems and 'legacy' clients :))
Dependencies: - python > 2.7 - pandas, - xlrd
Usage: xlstocsv /path/to/xls_or_xlsx_file/
# spits CSV lines on CLI
Usage: xlstocsv /path/to/xls_or_xlsx_file/ /path/to/file.csv
# writes in a CSV file