python-excel Google Group

Writing to Excel in Python 2.2

t.sa...@gmail.com (T Satti) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:20:35 UT

Hi all,

I’m relatively new to python. I’m using a process simulation package
which is stuck in the past unfortunately – it would not support any
version older than python 2.2. This fairly frustrating as you can
imagine.

This means I cannot use pyExcelerator or xlwt to create spreadsheets

Different colors in same cell

airw...@gmail.com (Ervin Hegedüs) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:03:37 UT

Hello All,
I would like to know is there any way to put a text to a cell with
different colours?
For example (as html):
<font style="color: red;">This is the lead part</font> <font
style="color: black;">of full text</font>
In other way: which "object" has color in XLS: the text or a cell?
Thank you:

Public code repository?

wamc...@gmail.com (wam) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:16:21 UT

Is there a public revision control repository where the latest and
greatest source code can be downloaded? I'd like to try out xlsxrd,
but couldn't find a git, mercurial, or subversion repo from which to
download it.

-- William

reading/writing excel file with embeded macro in python?

christophe.troph...@orange.fr (Christophe Trophime) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:57:44 UT

Hi,
I need to create an excel for Catia to create a CAD object.
The excel embededs a macro and a set of points.
The points are created by a homemade program.
I wish to be able to create the excel file for Catia from
that set of points.

I tried to read an already existing excel file for Catia but I cannot

Plans for xlsx?

johnmfis...@comcast.net (wave_man) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:26:02 UT

Is there a plan to handle the xml format of new excel releases?

I understand the constraints of time and money of course... just
wondering if an update is in the cards.

Kind regards,

John Fisher

possible to modify an existing workbook?

pfeld...@verizon.net (Phillip M. Feldman) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:45:42 UT

I would like to open an Excel workbook that may already exist, add a
new worksheet, write some data to that worksheet, and then save the
workbook. I've figured out how to create the workbook if it already
exists. My problem is the following: If the workbook already exists,
I do not want to destroy or modify an existing worksheets. Can this

Add a note to a cell by xlwt

hoa...@nextgsolutions.com (Hoan Vu Quoc) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:50:37 UT

Hi all, i've searched mail list and google for a week. However, until now i
still dont know how to add a note into a cell by xlwt. Can xlwt do it ?

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.

Outline collapse

rieger1...@gmail.com (Colin) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:18 UT

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

giun...@googlemail.com (Marco) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:07:07 UT

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?

honestk...@gmail.com (honestkent) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:05 UT

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

jacob.fenw...@gmail.com (Jacob Fenwick) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:21:59 UT

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

nils...@googlemail.com (nils106@googlemail.com) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:04:42 UT

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

mintak...@gmail.com (Mintaka) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:14:26 UT

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

noisetheo...@gmail.com (tscharf) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:15:11 UT

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

mike.i.bradf...@gmail.com (Mike) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:47:15 UT

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

station.n...@gmail.com (Ning) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:13:34 UT

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

velapp...@gmail.com (Vela) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:32:50 UT

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

gawade.ni...@gmail.com (danin) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:31:48 UT

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

gawade.ni...@gmail.com (danin) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:30:15 UT

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

anthonygra...@gmail.com (Anthony Graddy) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:07:25 UT

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

dchandekst...@gmail.com (David Chandek-Stark) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:45:01 UT

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?

gregpin...@gmail.com (gregpinero@gmail.com) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:00:07 UT

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

gawade.ni...@gmail.com (ninad) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:26:11 UT

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?

hoa...@nextgsolutions.com (Hoan Vu Quoc) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:53:41 UT

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?

zxo...@gmail.com (zxo102) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:11:26 UT

Hi everyone,

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

Thanks in advance.

ouyang

Contributing..?

jon...@googlemail.com (Jon Clements) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:45:40 UT

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

karthikreddybad...@gmail.com (Karthik Baddam) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:36:58 UT

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

nils...@googlemail.com (nils106@googlemail.com) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:03:10 UT

Hi all,

How can I query the background color of a cell ?

Nils

Freeing resources

rocksportroc...@googlemail.com (Uwe Schmitt) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:26:45 UT

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

velapp...@gmail.com (velappan velappan) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:35:12 UT

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?

toll...@gmail.com (Tollens) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:30:19 UT

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

rmpaternos...@gmail.com (rmpaternoster) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:54:50 UT

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

ptittm...@gmail.com (PT) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:52:38 UT

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

pascal.bauermeis...@gmail.com (Pascal Bauermeister) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:37:31 UT

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

jfabi...@yolo.com (John) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:28:20 UT

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.