Как записать русский текст в xls-файл?

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from xlwt import *
from xlrd import *
from xlutils.copy import copy
 
wb_src = open_workbook ('c:\outlets_ref.xls',formatting_info=True)
wb_dst = copy(wb_src)
 
ws_dst = wb_dst.get_sheet(0)
ws_dst.write(0, 9, 'active')
wb_dst.save('c:\outlets_ref.xls')

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import xlwt 
import xlrd 
from xlutils.copy import copy
 
wb_src = xlrd.open_workbook ('c:\outlets_ref.xls',formatting_info=True)
ws_src = wb_src.sheet_by_index(0)
print ws_src.cell_value(4,2).encode('utf-8')

wb_src = open_workbook ('c:\outlets_ref.xls',formatting_info=True, encoding_override='кодировка файла')

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
 
# создать file.xls и записать в него строку
 
import xlwt.Workbook
 
s = u'абвг'
 
book = xlwt.Workbook(encoding='utf-8')
sheet = book.add_sheet(u'Лист1')
sheet.write(0, 0, s)
book.save('file.xls')

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
 
from xlwt import *
from xlrd import *
from xlutils.copy import copy
 
wb_src = open_workbook('file.xls', formatting_info=True)
wb_dst = copy(wb_src)
 
ws_dst = wb_dst.get_sheet(0)
ws_dst.write(0, 9, 'active')
wb_dst.save('file.xls')

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import csv, xlwt
 
files = ['\\outlets.csv']
 
for i in files:
    f=open(i, 'rb')
    g = csv.reader ((f), delimiter=";", quotechar='"')
    wbk= xlwt.Workbook()
    sheet = wbk.add_sheet(u'Торговые точки')
 
    for rowi, row in enumerate(g):
        for coli, value in enumerate(row):
            sheet.write(rowi,coli,value.decode('cp1251'))
 
    wbk.save(i + '.xls')