The easiest way to install xlwings is via pip:
pip install xlwings
Alternatively, on the Anaconda distribution, xlwings can be installed via conda:
conda install xlwings
Note that as of Anaconda 2.0 (Python 2.7 version), xlwings is already included.
Alternatively it can be installed from source. From within the xlwings directory, execute:
python setup.py install
xlwings runs on Python 2.6-2.7 and 3.1-3.4