Are you aware of the arcpy.Frequency_analysis and the arcpy.PivotTable_management tools? I have used these two tools in combination successfully in many of my scripts to help consolidate areas and summarize fields. These tools are also available directly from the toolbox.

If you would also like a handy script that dumps your ESRI tables to an excel spreadsheet there is a GeoPython Google Site that has a script you can download. I have used it on both 9.3 and 10.0. It has an example of how to use it in a python script. You can simply cut and past then make it into a handy tool within the toolbox.

Are you aware of the arcpy.Frequency_analysis and the arcpy.PivotTable_management tools? I have used these two tools in combination successfully in many of my scripts to help consolidate areas and summarize fields. These tools are also available directly from the toolbox.

If you would also like a handy script that dumps your ESRI tables to an excel spreadsheet there is a GeoPython Google Site that has a script you can download. I have used it on both 9.3 and 10.0. It has an example of how to use it in a python script. You can simply cut and paste the code then make it into a handy tool within the toolbox.