python xlrd string match

Question

I couldnt find anything in the API. Is there a way to return the row number or coordinate of a cell based on a string match? For instance: You give the script a string and it scans through the .xls file and when it finds a cell with the matching string, it returns the coordinate or row number.

Answer 1

for i in range(sheet.nrows):
     row = sheet.row_values(i)
     for j in range(len(row)):
          if row[j] == search_value:
                return i,j
return None

something like that... just a basic search