Get Maximum Number of Occupied Rows and Columns in a Worksheet using Selenium with Python

We can get the maximum number of occupied rows and columns in a worksheet in Selenium. Excel is a spreadsheet which is saved with the .xlsx extension. An excel workbook has multiple sheets and each sheet consists of rows and columns.

Out of all the worksheets, while we are accessing a particular sheet that is called as an active sheet. Each cell inside a sheet has a unique address which is a combination of row and column numbers.

The column number starts from alphabetic character A and row number starts from the number 1. A cell can contain numerous types of values and they are the main component of a worksheet.

To work with excel in Selenium with python, we need to take help of OpenPyXL library. This library is responsible for reading and writing operations on Excel, having the extensions like xlsx, xlsm, xltm, xltx.

To install OpenPyXL library, we have to execute the command pip install openpyxl. This is because OpenPyXL does not come by default with python. After this we should import openpyxl in our code and then we should be ready to interact with excel.

To get the count of the occupied rows in a worksheet, first of all we need to load the entire workbook by specifying the path where it is located. This is achieved with load_workbook() method. Next we need to identify the active sheet among all the worksheets with the help of active method.

Finally we need to use the max_row method that gives the count of the number of occupied rows. Please note this method is to be used with the worksheet level object.

And we need to use the max_column method that gives the count of the number of occupied columns. Please note this method is to be used with the worksheet level object.

Syntax

wrkbk = load_workbook("C:\work\SeleniumPython.xlsx")
# to identify the active sheet
sh = wrkbk.active
# identify the number of occupied rows
sh.max_row
# identify the number of occupied rows
sh.max_column

Example

Coding Implementation to count the maximum number of occupied rows and columns.

import openpyxl
# load excel with its path
wrkbk = load_workbook("C:\work\SeleniumPython.xlsx")
# to get the active work sheet
sh = wrkbk.active
# get the value of row 2 and column 3
c=sh.cell(row=2,column=3)
# to set the value in row 2 and column 3
sh.cell(row=2,column=3).value = "Tutorialspoint"
# to print the value in console
print(sh.cell(row=2,column=3).value)
# to print the maximum number of occupied rows in console
print(sh.max_row)
# to print the maximum number of occupied columns in console
print(sh.max_column)