python-excel Google Group

Excel 2007 and dates

2009-11-23T20:25:11Z

I've got a bunch of Excel 2007 spreadsheets that I need to parse. As
far as I can tell from searching around, there is no release of xlrd
that will do this yet. (Although I'd be quite willing to use a
development branch, if someone is working on it and willing to share.
I could not find a code repository either.)

Re: merging sheets

2009-11-20T08:20:44Z

See xlutils.copy and/or xlutils.filter. Both are covered in the tutorial.
As I've said several times now, for xlutils.filter to grow this ability
would require a lot of work that would need funding.
cheers,
Chris

IRTDInterface differences in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007

2009-11-16T15:53:42Z

I am working with the RTD functions in excel using pythoncom and a
some great sample code from Chris Nilsson. In Excel 2003 and 2007, I
am able to create my python object via the IRTDServer com interface.
Excel then passes a callback interface, IRTDServerEvents to my
object. I hold on to that interface and callback using UpdateNotify

how could I disable gridline display

2009-11-14T16:53:58Z

This option in Excel is at "Tools -> Options -> View -> Gridlines(as a
checkbox)".

How could I disable it in xlwt?

Thanks for sharing your experience with me!

Xinhui

Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13T15:39:19Z

Hi All,
Apologies for the cross post, but I'm not sure this has received the
publicity it deserves...
PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in
response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out,
there's been a backlash from package maintainers who already have

Zoom in xlwt + auto-adjusting width for columns.

2009-11-13T12:27:16Z

Hey everyone,

I'm new here. I'm new in Python, and I'm new in xlwt.
I'm using Python 2.5 on a windows OS (XP) for work. I'm using xlwt
0.7.2.

I looked in the source code but found nothing related to my questions,
and also in the examples. So I'm asking here.

Q1:
I want to create a Excel file. I manage to do it, but I'd like to

Unicode conversion in xlrd

2009-11-10T13:06:58Z

First of all, thanks for xlrd, it's saved the day for me, I would
never have believed that after a couple of days experimenting I would
find extracting data from an Excel spreadsheet could be so easy!!

While handling a spreadsheet that is sent to me that has emails pasted
into cells by some arcane process, I get problems with an error

XFStyle from XF instance after xutils.copy

2009-11-10T11:35:37Z

Hi,

I'm using xlutils.copy method to copy template xls file, fill
placeholers and return new document to user.

rb = open_workbook('template.xls',f ormatting_info=True)
rs = rb.sheet_by_index(0)
wb = xlutils.copy(rb)
ws = wb.get_sheet(0)
for row in range(rs.nrows):
for col in range(rs.ncols):

Preserve graphs

2009-11-04T15:00:52Z

Hi,
Using XLRD and XLUtils:
Is it possible to open an excel file that contains graphs in sheet 1
and data in sheet2, and then modify sheet 2 and save it, without
losing the graphs in sheet 1?

Newbie: How to check for multiple command line arguments

2009-10-28T14:34:54Z

Hi,
I would like to use multiple command line arguments in my script. If
one or all of them are found, the script will produce an output for
them (from excel sheet). Please see the code below. Basically the
problem is here:
if sh.cell(i, 1).value == sys.argv[1]:
and I would like to use
if sh.cell(i, 1).value == sys.argv[1:]:

Newbie: extracting only certain cells in a column (xlrd)

2009-10-28T13:38:35Z

Hi,
I would like to print out only certain cells in an Excel table. The
extraction criteria is in a third column and if this criteria is met,
I would like to print the information in ninth column.
for i in range(len(sh.col_values(8))):
if sh.col_values(2).value[i] == "temp":
print sh.col_values(8)[i]

Newbie: Reading and printing cells from excel

2009-10-28T12:12:53Z

Hi,

I'm python newbie but I'm trying to read data from Excel file (from
one column) and print it into the output. Here's my code:

------------- python code -----------

import xlrd
wb = xlrd.open_workbook('testiexcel .xls')

sh = wb.sheet_by_name(u'data')

sposti = sh.col_values(8)
for i in range(sh.nrows):

Re: stripping lines from an excel file

2009-10-22T18:53:30Z

I am trying to find a string and copy the lines that have that string
in it to another excel file.
My issue now I can only copy the cells that come after the cell with
the string I flag. Ive tried to store out each line into a temporary
list (not good for speed or memory) but I cant, I think because each

Problem while reading date in date format from excel sheet.

2009-10-21T23:43:47Z

Hi All,

I have stored date of birth in the below format in excel file.
DateOfBirth
10/15/1980

While reading this value from excel into the application the value is
read as 29509.0
I need a string to be return in the format mm/dd/yyyy.

following is the snippet of my code

def read_from_excel(self,filepath, sheetname,columnname,rowno):

Protect sheet and allow formatting of cells, columns, rows

2009-10-20T17:57:48Z

Hi,

Using xlwt I can't see how to protect a worksheet, yet allow
formatting of cells, columns, rows, as you can do when applying
worksheet protection in the Excel 2003 UI. I would have guessed that
you would set:

sheet.protect = True

and

sheet.wnd_protect = False

but that seems to have no effect, at least on this score.

Outline collapse

2009-10-20T16:00:18Z

Hi guys,

I have a 3 level outline and I'd like to have all 2nd level groupings
collapsed by default. The private 'collapse' variable gave me hope
initially but after trying various things to set it, I haven't had
much luck. Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks

Dumb question about updating xlrd version

2009-10-19T11:07:07Z

Sorry for the question. I have just started using xlrd and it seems to
be the perfect solution for what I need (read an excel file into
python!! :-). I noticed that version 0.71 is out. Now, what is the
best way for updating the package without messing things up? I am on
Windows XP. I assume the new version is backward compatible.

how can i merge 2 excels into one?

2009-10-17T23:40:05Z

python-excel can copy a excel an modify it, but use copy cann't merge
2 sheets from different xls files, how to to do?

xlrd represents numbers with 0 decimal places as floats

2009-10-17T21:21:59Z

Hi,
I'm a new user of xlrd.
I was just noticing that any field in Excel represented as number will be
interpreted by xlrd as a python float then has one decimal point. For
example 4 would be represented as 4.0.
I realize this is easy to fix in any python code by converting to an int and
then converting to a str, but I'm wondering if there's a way to change how

xlutils and python2.4

2009-10-15T18:04:42Z

Hi all,

Is it possible to use xlutils with python2.4 (workaround etc.) ?
AFAIK xlutils requires functools which is introduced in python2.5.

Any pointer would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Nils

WARNING *** OLE2 inconsistency: SSCS size is 0 but SSAT size is non-zero

2009-10-15T16:14:26Z

Can somebody explain this warning?

It is probably from file /xlrd/compdoc.py
I geeting this message on beginning reading one big (77MB) .xls file
with 5 sheet. First 4 sheet have 65535 rows of data. row 1 and row
65536 are empty. (I know it is crazy to have such data in excel, but
it is from external source.)

formating a range of cells

2009-10-15T14:15:11Z

I am somewhat new to xlwt, not completely new to python.

I am working on a report program, and the end user would like me to
add some formatting to it, particularly some cell boarders and
background color changes.

The background color changes are easy, and I can write them as I write
to the cells. The bigger issue is the cell boarders, which are

writing to time format fields in Excel

2009-10-12T20:47:15Z

just finished writing some code to generate reports by writing data
into an Excel spreadsheet using COM. (Unfortunately XLWT/XLRD etc
wasn't an option because the Excel spreadsheet included charts).

Since there are numerous examples for open, writing to, and saving
Excel files I won't go into that here :-)

How to set lables for x and y axis

2009-10-12T11:13:34Z

Hi heros,

I am using Excel 2007 and trying to get a label for both y-axis and x-
axis.
The vba code should be used as listed below:

ActiveChart.SetElement
(msoElementPrimaryCategoryAxis TitleAdjacentToAxis)
ActiveChart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryValueAxisTit leVertical)
ActiveChart.SetElement (msoElementDataLabelRight)

How to store Excel sheet values in the database

2009-10-11T10:32:50Z

Hi All,

Am trying to add the excel sheet datas into the database.

This the code am using to add the whole excel sheet values to the db.

from xlrd import cellname, cellnameabs, colname ,open_workbook
import sqlite3
book = open_workbook("Cases.xls")
s=book.sheet_by_index(0)
conn = sqlite3.connect('test.db')

print field names of table in model to xls sheet

2009-10-10T09:31:48Z

Hi guys,
can anyone please tell how can i print field name of model to xls
sheet. for eg

general_address=models.CharFie ld(max_length=100)

i want to print the "general address" as my column heading in my xls
sheet. i dnt want to hardcode it in the sheet.write.

Thanks n regards

about column width

2009-10-10T05:30:15Z

hi all.
can anyone please tell me how to set column width depending on my
data from database.

Opening Excel File With XLRD - Getting file size warning

2009-10-10T04:07:25Z

Hi,

I uploaded three files to the group.

I need to process an "Excel file" (maybe it's something else?) that I
downloaded from this website:
[link]

When I try to open the original.xls file, I get this warning:
WARNING *** file size (80900) not 512 + multiple of sector size (512)

xlwt utility methods

2009-10-09T17:45:01Z

Hi,

Thanks for the great modules! As I started using them, I found myself
wanting some more convenient methods for dumping tabular data into a
worksheet, especially when all the data can be treated as strings.
FWIW, I've posted what I've come up with to
[link].

xlutils.copy Not Maintaining Landscape mode or Gridlines?

2009-10-09T17:00:07Z

My original file is in landscape mode, but the new ones I make after
running copy on it don't seem to be.

Any ideas? Is this a bug? How can I preserve the orientation, or
reset it myself?

Thanks,

Greg

My code:

from xlutils.copy import copy
from xlrd import open_workbook
from xlwt import easyxf

need help in basics of xlwt

2009-10-09T12:26:11Z

hi guys, i m newbie to the django. can anyone suggest me some gud
material for xlwt doc. i hav seen sme of them but get nothing from
them.
can anyone tell me how to retrieve data from database to excel sheet.
-thanks

When'llpython-excel support converting XLSX module?

2009-10-09T09:53:41Z

I need module convert xlsx for my python work. I've searched Goolge for a
long times but i haven't found any module python support this. How to know
when python-excel will support converting xlsx files ?

How pyexcelerator read formulas from an existing excel file?

2009-10-09T09:11:26Z

Hi everyone,

Anybody knows how pyexcelerator read those formulas from an existing
excel file?

Thanks in advance.

ouyang

Contributing..?

2009-10-08T12:45:40Z

Hi all,

Is there anything I can contribute back to the library (xlrd in
particular)? I have some free-time until end of mid Nov. (before
everything goes mad), and thought as this is one of the major
libraries installed on all my boxes, then perhaps I might be able to
do something in return...

xlwt saving on a sheet by sheet basis

2009-10-07T18:36:58Z

Hi All,

I am writing lots of data to a xls sheet using xlwt. This data is
written into multiple sheets (dependant on my app). As there is lots
of data, writing takes lot of time and memory. The final xls sheet on
the disk is about 130 -- 250 Megs.

I would like to know if I can save each sheet at a time to the xls

background color

2009-10-06T19:03:10Z

Hi all,

How can I query the background color of a cell ?

Nils

Freeing resources

2009-10-06T10:26:45Z

Hi,

is there any method to close the opened workbook after reading it ?
I use the del command for this task, but is this the intended way ?

Greetings, Uwe

New To Python-Excel

2009-10-05T09:35:12Z

Hi All,

Am prertty new to python with Excel, Can any suggest me any good
tutors or help links to go-through.

Am trying to read the specific coloum based on the heading.

For Example the contains for 4 headings like name age address
deatils , I would like to read the data's of name alone means how I

How do I read and write to an excel file?

2009-10-01T20:30:19Z

I have been working with the packages xlwt and xlrd.

I have an excel file that has "xyz" in the first cell. All I want to
do is print the value of cell 0,0 and change the cell value to "abc"
then save the workbook.

It seems like all I can do now is either read the value with xlrd, or
write a new worksheet with xlwt.

xlrd in AppEngine

2009-10-01T16:54:50Z

Is it possible to use xlrd in AppEngine? I need to read and xls
document.

How do I install it?

sheet names or index from Names class

2009-09-29T17:52:38Z

Hi.

I'm attempting to get the sheet name or sheet index value from the
Names class. I am able to get a sheet object using the following:

frcs_names=
['yarddist','slope','elevation ','area','moveindist','hauldis t','calcresidues','calcmovein' ,
'calcresidues','removalsct',
'treevolct','dbhct','removalss lt','treevolslt','dbhslt',

Cell arbitrary background color

2009-09-25T09:37:31Z

Hello,
the background color of a cell can be set to an indexed value. Now I
am wondering if it is possible to set an arbitrary (e.g. RGB) value...
Thanks,
Pascal

How do I insert a row

2009-09-24T19:28:20Z

Hi,
I'm a newbie to xwlt. I'm sorry if this question but answered many times in
the past but I can't find the answer.
How can I insert a row into a speadsheet I have open. I found that it was
much easier to fill all the rows and then go back and provide formulas. But
now I need to insert a blank row and can't figure out how to get that done.

new line inside cells

2009-09-24T10:48:50Z

hi,

does anybody know how to preserve the \n inside cells reading excel
documents with xlrd / pyexcelerator / something else?

thanks,
riccardo

numpy array bridge

2009-09-22T11:22:06Z

Hello,
does xlwt have a functionality to read a numpy array into a Excel
table?
And, if it was a structured array, could it also recognise data types
such as dates?

I found this topic:
New member: interested in writing Python bioinformatic scripts, to be
fed from and to an Excel spreadsheet

Anyone has experience on MS_Projects working with PyWin32?

2009-09-21T19:51:15Z

All:

There are many similar features between MS_Excel and MS_Projects,
especially in the areas of the cell accessing. Does anyone has
experience on MS_Project working with PyWin32?

If you do, please let me know and send me a few examples.
Thanks very much

Sammie

Escaping the apostrophe for number formats

2009-09-18T08:51:59Z

Hello,

I try to make my own number format which contains apostrophe (I want
to have number presented so 1'000'000):

t=pycel.XFStyle()
t.font = stdFont
t.num_format_str=str("#'###'## 0.0____;-#'###'##0.0____;-____ ;@____")
style['std']=t

Unfortunately it seems the the apostrophes get escaped when given to

xlutils 1.4.1

2009-09-16T01:23:53Z

Dear all,

I recently tried installing over my current xlutils with version 1.4.1
by using the following instructions on [link]
using "easy_install xlutils". But the install didn't go so well and I
noticed this after running a script with traceback error below which

New member: interested in writing Python bioinformatic scripts, to be fed from and to an Excel spreadsheet

2009-09-14T17:04:44Z

Hi Folks
I'm a genetic professor with a 37-yr old background in Fortran, just
back from a bioinformatics course, and have just taken my first two
lectures in Python. My interest is in writing Python scripts that can
be fed spreadsheet data Excel, and feed processed data back to Excel.
Excel is the user-friendly interface, Python is the way of doing

Creating the correct cell data type from raw text

2009-09-13T00:35:38Z

HI Python-Excel,

Thanks for providing such a great module, xlrd and xlwt are truly
handy. I have a question on the most pythonic way to take raw data
and type it correctly when using xlwt. Forgive me if this is covered
in the documentation, but what's the best way to take the comma-
separated tokens in the RAWDATA string below and correctly set their