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Python and Excel: Chris Withers

The document discusses using Python to read from, write to, and modify Excel files. It recommends using the xlrd library to read Excel files, xlwt to write Excel files, and xlutils to modify existing Excel files. It provides code examples for reading data and cell values from Excel files using xlrd, writing data to new Excel files using xlwt, and modifying an existing Excel file using xlutils. It also provides links to find documentation and support for these Python Excel libraries.

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Python and Excel: Chris Withers

The document discusses using Python to read from, write to, and modify Excel files. It recommends using the xlrd library to read Excel files, xlwt to write Excel files, and xlutils to modify existing Excel files. It provides code examples for reading data and cell values from Excel files using xlrd, writing data to new Excel files using xlwt, and modifying an existing Excel file using xlutils. It also provides links to find documentation and support for these Python Excel libraries.

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Python and Excel

Chris Withers

What do people do?

CSV? HTML hack?! COM? NO!

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Reading

xlrd
import xlrd book = xlrd.open_workbook("myfile.xls") print "The number of worksheets is", book.nsheets print "Worksheet name(s):", book.sheet_names() sh = book.sheet_by_index(0) print sh.name, sh.nrows, sh.ncols print "Cell D30 is", sh.cell_value(rowx=29, colx=3) for rx in range(sh.nrows): print sh.row(rx)

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Writing

DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR
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Writing

PLEASE DO NOT USE PYEXCELERATOR!


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Writing

xlwt
import xlwt from datetime import datetime style0 = xlwt.easyxf( 'font: name Times New Roman, colour red, bold on' ) style1 = xlwt.easyxf('',num_format_str='D-MMM-YY') wb = xlwt.Workbook() ws = wb.add_sheet('A Test Sheet') ws.write(0, 0, 'Test', style0) ws.write(1, 0, datetime.now(), style1) ws.write(2, 1, 1) ws.write(2, 2, xlwt.Formula("A3+B3")) wb.save('example.xls')

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Modifying

xlutils.copy
from xlrd import open_workbook from xlutils.copy import copy rb = open_workbook('source.xls',formatting_info=True) wb = copy(rb) ws = wb.get_sheet(0) ws.write(0,0,I'm only changing cell A1) wb.save('output.xls')

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Where can I find these?

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd
google for xlrd

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt
google for xlwt

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlutils
google for xlutils

http://groups.google.com/group/python-excel
google for python excel group
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