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Excel 2007 and dates

ccur...@gmail.com (Chris Curvey) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:25:11 UT

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

ch...@simplistix.co.uk (Chris Withers) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:20:44 UT

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

cowd...@gmail.com (Jack) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:53:42 UT

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

xinhui.t...@gmail.com (Xinhui) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:53:58 UT

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

ch...@simplistix.co.uk (Chris Withers) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:39:19 UT

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.

johan.chouq...@gmail.com (Dargoan) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:27:16 UT

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

iankro...@gmail.com (IanKRolfe) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:06:58 UT

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

alexande...@gmail.com (Alexander Nesterov) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:35:37 UT

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

connor...@gmail.com (mconnors) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:52 UT

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

johannesr...@gmail.com (johannes rara) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:34:54 UT

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)

johannesr...@gmail.com (johannes rara) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:35 UT

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

johannesr...@gmail.com (jrara) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:12:53 UT

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

sagear...@gmail.com (Sage) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:53:30 UT

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.

mpbongir...@gmail.com (Mayur) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:43:47 UT

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

dchandekst...@gmail.com (David Chandek-Stark) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:57:48 UT

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.