I've been looking for ways to do this and haven't found a good solution to this. I'm trying to copy a sheet in an .xlsx file that has macros to another workbook. I know I could do this if the sheet contained data in each cell but that's not the case. The sheet contains checkboxes and SOME text. Is there a way to do this in python (or any other language for that matter?) I just need it done programmatically as it will be part of a larger script.
Try win32com package.
This offers an interface of VBA for python
You can find it on SourceForge.
I've done some projects with this package, we can discuss more on your problem if this package helps.
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I have searched into google and found some contradiction. Does xlwt support xlsx file (MS office 2007). I heard that xlwt 0.7.4 support xlsx file. Does anyone tried xlsx file writing operation with xlwt 0.7.4
The purpose of this question is,I do not have permission to install library if I need to install I need to provide more detail info. I need to write xlsx file in python.So if anyone has done similar thing it will help to provide better inforamtion
I have looked into this wiki page. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt But did not find that it support xlsx file
or Should I use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl for writing xlsx File
openpyxl is guaranteed to write xlsx files. From a cursory read through some of the xlwt code and docs/examples, I don't think xlwt supports xlsx. If openpyxl does what you need it to do, why look elsewhere?
Edit: with xlwt version 0.7.4 I attempted to save a file as sample.xlsx. Upon attempting to open it I got a not valid error message, so no .xlsx files for now.
The xlwt module doesn't support the xlsx format. The xlsx file format is completely different from the xls format supported by xlwt.
As an alternative have a look at XlsxWriter which is a Python module for creating xlsx files.
It supports a lot of Excel features. Have a look at the documentation or start with the examples.
2021 update: xlrd has reached End of Life (due to security concerns in the xls format).
You can use openpyxl for reading and writing data.
You may also use xlsxwriter for writing, if you’re writing huge files and write performance is critical. See: https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/performance.html
2019 update: xlwt doesn't support xlsx Format.
XlsxWriter is 100% compatible with xlsx, well-maintained and has a good reputation.
For reading xlsx files, you can use xlrd.
You can also use Pandas if you've read+write requirements and want to create graphs and charts. (Pandas internally uses XlsxWriter modules to write the files).
P.S. - The last x in xlsx stands for XML. xlsx is a zipped Open XML file.
Use xlsx wherever possible. xls is the old (proprietary) format, which doesn't have some advanced features like conditional formatting or freezing col/rows etc.
I'd like to be able to include python code snippets in Excel (ideally, in a nice format -- all colors/formats should be kept the same).
What would be the best way to go about it?
EDIT: I just want to store python code in an Excel spreadsheet for an easy overview -- I am not going to run it -- just want it to be nicely visible/formatted as part of an Excel worksheet.
I think that gist (from github) is precisely what you are looking for. From the description:
Gist is a simple way to share snippets
and pastes with others. All gists are
git repositories, so they are
automatically versioned, forkable and
usable as a git repository.
While Excel itself doesnot support other scripting Langauges than VBA, the open source OpenOffice and LibreOffice packages - which include a spreadsheet - can be scriptable with Python. Still, they won't allow Python code to be pasted on teh cells out of the box - but it is possible to write Python code which can act on the spredsheet contents (and do all the other things Python can do).
Is there any existing Python library that can validate data in Excel format? Or what kind of keyword should I use to search such an open source project? Thanks.
[Disclosure: I'm the author of xlrd]
xlrd allows you to extract data from XLS files. XLSX support is in alpha testing; e-mail me if you need it. You get told precisely what is in each cell (Excel cell type and value). It runs on Python 2.1 to 2.7 on any platform. You don't need Windows. You don't need Excel to be installed on your machine. Start with the tutorial found here.
I`m not sure what are you looking for, but there are three libraries that, in combination, can read and write excel files:
xlrd
xlwt
xlutils
They read and save binary excel archives both in windows and linux. There are functions for formatting data and styles.
If you want to check if some data column is in a given format you can do it with these libs (basically with xlrd).
how do i insert few row in an existing excel file using python? the excel file maybe be of any excel version. On windows that could have been possible by using win32com.client...but i need to make the changes in the linux environment. how can i do it?
you can use pyExcelerator. the package comes with example demos to write excel files
I'm looking into this myself and found https://bitbucket.org/ericgazoni/openpyxl/wiki/Home .
It is a new library that allows editing xlsx files.
I have some data in CSV format that I want to pull into an Excel spreadsheet and then create some standard set of graphs for. Since the data is originally generated in a Python app, I was hoping to simply extend the app so that it could do all the post processing and I wouldn't have to do it by hand. Is there an easy interface with Python to work with and manipulate Excel spreadsheets? Any good samples of doing this? Is this Windows only (I'm primarily working on a Mac and have Excel, but could do this on Windows if necessary).
xlutils (and the included packages xlrd and xlwt) should allow your Python program to handily do any creation, reading and manipulation of Excel files you might want!
On Windows you could use the pywin32 package to create an Excel COM Object and then manipulate it from a script. You need to have an installed Excel on that machine though. I haven't done this myself so I can't give you and details but I've seen this working so can at least confirm that it's possible. No idea about OS X, unfortunately.