I would like to use Python to extract OLE-objects from an Excel table into the Windows clipboard.
This post didn't help further since it is for VBA.
And this post is still unanswered.
Assuming the given Excel table (with ChemDraw or ChemSketch OLE objects):
There are some Python modules which can handle Excel files, e.g. openpyxl, xlrd.
The module win32clipboard can put data into the clipboard.
My Problems:
I don't see how to get the embedded OLE object to the clipboard. Probably, openpyxl and xlrd together with win32clipboard are not suited for this?
There is a Python module oletools which maybe can do it but I don't understand how it works.
https://pypi.org/project/oletools/
From this page:
oleobj: to extract embedded objects from OLE files.
This seems to be exactly what I am looking for, however, I couldn't find any MCVEs. And unfortunately, the documentation of oleobj is basically reduced to: "read the source code and find out yourself". I would be grateful for hints and assistance.
My code so far:
### trying to extract OLE objects from Excel table into clipboard
from openpyxl import load_workbook
import win32clipboard as clpbd
def set_clipboard(data):
clpbd.OpenClipboard()
clpbd.EmptyClipboard()
clpbd.SetClipboardText(data) # I'm aware, this is only for text, is there anything for OLEs?
clpbd.CloseClipboard()
def print_clipboard():
clpbd.OpenClipboard()
data = clpbd.GetClipboardData()
clpbd.CloseClipboard()
print(data)
wb = load_workbook(filename = 'tbChemOLE.xlsx')
ws = wb.active
myName = ws['A3'].value # result: napthalene
myImage = ws['B3'].value # result: None
myObject = ws['C3'].value # result: None
set_clipboard(myName)
print_clipboard() # result: Naphtalene
# set_clipboard(myImage) # crash, because myImage is None
print_clipboard()
# set_clipboard(myObject) # crash, because myObject is None
print_clipboard()
wb.close()
### end of code
I built a python module to do exactly this check it out over here. https://pypi.org/project/AttachmentsExtractor/ also the module can be run on any os.
after installing the library use the following code snippet:
from AttachmentsExtractor import extractor
abs_path_to_file='Please provide absolute path here '
path_to_destination_directory = 'Please provide path of the directory where the extracted attachments should be stored'
extractor.extract(abs_path_to_file,path_to_destination_directory) # returns true if one or more attachments are found else returns false.
In the meantime I found this post, where the OP actually didn't want the OLE objects on the clipboard, but for me it is fine. Actually, no need for openpyxl or xlrd, but win32com.client is required.
I can get all OLE objects, however, they are indexed (probably) in the sequence of their addition.
So I need to create a dictionary with the row index as key and a set of OLE object index of and name as value.
Code:
### copy OLE object in certain cell to clipboard
import win32com.client as win32
import win32clipboard
excel = win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')
ffname = r'C:\Test\tbChemOLE.xlsx'
wb = excel.Workbooks.Open(ffname)
ws = wb.Worksheets.Item(1)
objs = ws.OLEObjects()
def get_all_OLEs():
oleNo_dict = {} # dictionary for all OLE objects
for i in range(1,len(objs)+1): # loop all OLE objects
obj = objs.Item(i)
myRow = obj.TopLeftCell.Row # row of OLE object
myName = ws.Cells(myRow,1).Value # corresponding name
oleNo_dict[myRow] = (i, myName)
return oleNo_dict
def get_OLE(row):
try:
objs[oleNo_dict[row][0]].Copy()
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
data = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(0xC004) # Binary access
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
except Exception as e:
print(e)
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
return oleNo_dict[row]
# and OLE is on clipboard if found
oleNo_dict = get_all_OLEs()
row = 4
myMolecule = get_OLE(row)
print(myMolecule[1], "OLE object is now on the clipboard.")
wb.Close()
excel.Application.Quit()
### end of code
Result:
Anthracene OLE object is now on the clipboard.
I have a problem connecting to Excel API in windows 10. I use Office365 and with it Excel2016. My goal is: to download CSV file from a client FTPS Server, merge it with the existing files,perfom some action on it(with pandas) and then load the whole data into excel and do reporting with it... Up to the point of loading it into Excel everything is fine.I managed to do all steps automatically with Python (sorry if my code looks a little cluttered - I am new to Python)
import subprocess
import os
import ftplib
import fnmatch
import sys
from ftplib import FTP_TLS
from win32com.client import Dispatch
import pandas as pd
filematch = '*.csv'
target_dir = 'cannot tell you the path :-) '
def loginftps(servername,user,passwort):
ftps = FTP_TLS(servername)
ftps.login(user=user,passwd=passwort)
ftps.prot_p()
ftps.cwd('/changes to some directory')
for filename in ftps.nlst(filematch):
target_file_name = os.path.join(target_dir,os.path.basename(filename))
with open(target_file_name,'wb') as fhandle:
ftps.retrbinary('RETR %s' %filename, fhandle.write)
def openExcelApplication():
xl = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xl.Visible = True # otherwise excel is hidden
def mergeallFilestoOneFile():
subprocess.call(['prepareData_executable.bat'])
def deletezerorows():
rohdaten = pd.read_csv("merged.csv",engine="python",index_col=False,encoding='Latin-1',delimiter=";", quoting = 3)
rohdaten = rohdaten.convert_objects(convert_numeric=True)
rohdaten = rohdaten[rohdaten.UN_PY > 0]
del rohdaten['deletes something']
del rohdaten['deletes something']
rohdaten.to_csv('merged_angepasst.csv',index=False,sep=";")
def rohdatenExcelAuswertung():
csvdaten = pd.csv_read("merged.csv")
servername = input("please enter FTPS serveradress:")
user = input("Loginname:")
passwort = input("Password:")
loginftps(servername,user,passwort)
mergeallFilestoOneFile()
deletezerorows()
And here I am stuck somehow,.. I did extensive google research but somehow nobody has ever tried to perform Excel tasks from within Python??
I found this stackoverflow discussion: Opening/running Excel file from python but I somehow cannot figure out where my Excel-Application is stored to run code mentioned in this thread.
What I have is an Excel-Workbook which has a data connection to my CSV file. I want Python to open MS-Excel, refresh data connection and refresh a PivoTable & then save and close the file.
Has anybody here ever tried to to something similar and can provide some code to get me started?
Thanks
A small snippet of code that should work for opening an excel file, updating linked data, saving it, and finally closing it:
from win32com.client import Dispatch
xl = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xl.Workbooks.Open(Filename='C:\\Users\\Xukrao\\Desktop\\workbook.xlsx', UpdateLinks=3)
xl.ActiveWorkbook.Close(SaveChanges=True)
xl.Quit()
I am using win32.client in python for converting my .xlsx and .xls file into a .csv. When I execute this code it's giving an error. My code is:
def convertXLS2CSV(aFile):
'''converts a MS Excel file to csv w/ the same name in the same directory'''
print "------ beginning to convert XLS to CSV ------"
try:
import win32com.client, os
from win32com.client import constants as c
excel = win32com.client.Dispatch('Excel.Application')
fileDir, fileName = os.path.split(aFile)
nameOnly = os.path.splitext(fileName)
newName = nameOnly[0] + ".csv"
outCSV = os.path.join(fileDir, newName)
workbook = excel.Workbooks.Open(aFile)
workbook.SaveAs(outCSV, c.xlCSVMSDOS) # 24 represents xlCSVMSDOS
workbook.Close(False)
excel.Quit()
del excel
print "...Converted " + nameOnly + " to CSV"
except:
print ">>>>>>> FAILED to convert " + aFile + " to CSV!"
convertXLS2CSV("G:\\hello.xlsx")
I am not able to find the error in this code. Please help.
I would use xlrd - it's faster, cross platform and works directly with the file.
As of version 0.8.0, xlrd reads both XLS and XLSX files.
But as of version 2.0.0, support was reduced back to only XLS.
import xlrd
import csv
def csv_from_excel():
wb = xlrd.open_workbook('your_workbook.xls')
sh = wb.sheet_by_name('Sheet1')
your_csv_file = open('your_csv_file.csv', 'wb')
wr = csv.writer(your_csv_file, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
for rownum in xrange(sh.nrows):
wr.writerow(sh.row_values(rownum))
your_csv_file.close()
I would use pandas. The computationally heavy parts are written in cython or c-extensions to speed up the process and the syntax is very clean. For example, if you want to turn "Sheet1" from the file "your_workbook.xls" into the file "your_csv.csv", you just use the top-level function read_excel and the method to_csv from the DataFrame class as follows:
import pandas as pd
data_xls = pd.read_excel('your_workbook.xls', 'Sheet1', index_col=None)
data_xls.to_csv('your_csv.csv', encoding='utf-8')
Setting encoding='utf-8' alleviates the UnicodeEncodeError mentioned in other answers.
Maybe someone find this ready-to-use piece of code useful. It allows to create CSVs from all spreadsheets in Excel's workbook.
Python 2:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import xlrd
import csv
from os import sys
def csv_from_excel(excel_file):
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(excel_file)
all_worksheets = workbook.sheet_names()
for worksheet_name in all_worksheets:
worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_name(worksheet_name)
with open(u'{}.csv'.format(worksheet_name), 'wb') as your_csv_file:
wr = csv.writer(your_csv_file, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
for rownum in xrange(worksheet.nrows):
wr.writerow([unicode(entry).encode("utf-8") for entry in worksheet.row_values(rownum)])
if __name__ == "__main__":
csv_from_excel(sys.argv[1])
Python 3:
import xlrd
import csv
from os import sys
def csv_from_excel(excel_file):
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(excel_file)
all_worksheets = workbook.sheet_names()
for worksheet_name in all_worksheets:
worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_name(worksheet_name)
with open(u'{}.csv'.format(worksheet_name), 'w', encoding="utf-8") as your_csv_file:
wr = csv.writer(your_csv_file, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
for rownum in range(worksheet.nrows):
wr.writerow(worksheet.row_values(rownum))
if __name__ == "__main__":
csv_from_excel(sys.argv[1])
I'd use csvkit, which uses xlrd (for xls) and openpyxl (for xlsx) to convert just about any tabular data to csv.
Once installed, with its dependencies, it's a matter of:
python in2csv myfile > myoutput.csv
It takes care of all the format detection issues, so you can pass it just about any tabular data source. It's cross-platform too (no win32 dependency).
First read your excel spreadsheet into pandas, below code will import your excel spreadsheet into pandas as a OrderedDict type which contain all of your worksheet as dataframes. Then simply use worksheet_name as a key to access specific worksheet as a dataframe and save only required worksheet as csv file by using df.to_csv(). Hope this will workout in your case.
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel('YourExcel.xlsx', sheet_name=None)
df['worksheet_name'].to_csv('YourCsv.csv')
If your Excel file contain only one worksheet then simply use below code:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel('YourExcel.xlsx')
df.to_csv('YourCsv.csv')
If someone want to convert all the excel worksheets from single excel workbook to the different csv files, try below code:
import pandas as pd
def excelTOcsv(filename):
df = pd.read_excel(filename, sheet_name=None)
for key, value in df.items():
return df[key].to_csv('%s.csv' %key)
This function is working as a multiple Excel sheet of same excel workbook to multiple csv file converter. Where key is the sheet name and value is the content inside sheet.
#andi I tested your code, it works great, BUT
In my sheets there's a column like this
2013-03-06T04:00:00
date and time in the same cell
It gets garbled during exportation, it's like this in the exported file
41275.0416667
other columns are ok.
csvkit, on the other side, does ok with that column but only exports ONE sheet, and my files have many.
xlsx2csv is faster than pandas and xlrd.
xlsx2csv -s 0 crunchbase_monthly_.xlsx cruchbase
excel file usually comes with n sheetname.
-s is sheetname index.
then, cruchbase folder will be created, each sheet belongs to xlsx will be converted to a single csv.
p.s. csvkit is awesome too.
Quoting an answer from Scott Ming, which works with workbook containing multiple sheets:
Here is a python script getsheets.py (mirror), you should install pandas and xlrd before you use it.
Run this:
pip3 install pandas xlrd # or `pip install pandas xlrd`
How does it works?
$ python3 getsheets.py -h
Usage: getsheets.py [OPTIONS] INPUTFILE
Convert a Excel file with multiple sheets to several file with one sheet.
Examples:
getsheets filename
getsheets filename -f csv
Options:
-f, --format [xlsx|csv] Default xlsx.
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
Convert to several xlsx:
$ python3 getsheets.py goods_temp.xlsx
Sheet.xlsx Done!
Sheet1.xlsx Done!
All Done!
Convert to several csv:
$ python3 getsheets.py goods_temp.xlsx -f csv
Sheet.csv Done!
Sheet1.csv Done!
All Done!
getsheets.py:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import click
import os
import pandas as pd
def file_split(file):
s = file.split('.')
name = '.'.join(s[:-1]) # get directory name
return name
def getsheets(inputfile, fileformat):
name = file_split(inputfile)
try:
os.makedirs(name)
except:
pass
df1 = pd.ExcelFile(inputfile)
for x in df1.sheet_names:
print(x + '.' + fileformat, 'Done!')
df2 = pd.read_excel(inputfile, sheetname=x)
filename = os.path.join(name, x + '.' + fileformat)
if fileformat == 'csv':
df2.to_csv(filename, index=False)
else:
df2.to_excel(filename, index=False)
print('\nAll Done!')
CONTEXT_SETTINGS = dict(help_option_names=['-h', '--help'])
#click.command(context_settings=CONTEXT_SETTINGS)
#click.argument('inputfile')
#click.option('-f', '--format', type=click.Choice([
'xlsx', 'csv']), default='xlsx', help='Default xlsx.')
def cli(inputfile, format):
'''Convert a Excel file with multiple sheets to several file with one sheet.
Examples:
\b
getsheets filename
\b
getsheets filename -f csv
'''
if format == 'csv':
getsheets(inputfile, 'csv')
else:
getsheets(inputfile, 'xlsx')
cli()
We can use Pandas lib of Python to conevert xls file to csv file
Below code will convert xls file to csv file .
import pandas as pd
Read Excel File from Local Path :
df = pd.read_excel("C:/Users/IBM_ADMIN/BU GPA Scorecard.xlsx",sheetname=1)
Trim Spaces present on columns :
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip()
Send Data frame to CSV file which will be pipe symbol delimted and without Index :
df.to_csv("C:/Users/IBM_ADMIN/BU GPA Scorecard csv.csv",sep="|",index=False)
Python is not the best tool for this task. I tried several approaches in Python but none of them work 100% (e.g. 10% converts to 0.1, or column types are messed up, etc). The right tool here is PowerShell, because it is an MS product (as is Excel) and has the best integration.
Simply download this PowerShell script, edit line 47 to enter the path for the folder containing the Excel files and run the script using PowerShell.
Using xlrd is a flawed way to do this, because you lose the Date Formats in Excel.
My use case is the following.
Take an Excel File with more than one sheet and convert each one into a file of its own.
I have done this using the xlsx2csv library and calling this using a subprocess.
import csv
import sys, os, json, re, time
import subprocess
def csv_from_excel(fname):
subprocess.Popen(["xlsx2csv " + fname + " --all -d '|' -i -p "
"'<New Sheet>' > " + 'test.csv'], shell=True)
return
lstSheets = csv_from_excel(sys.argv[1])
time.sleep(3) # system needs to wait a second to recognize the file was written
with open('[YOUR PATH]/test.csv') as f:
lines = f.readlines()
firstSheet = True
for line in lines:
if line.startswith('<New Sheet>'):
if firstSheet:
sh_2_fname = line.replace('<New Sheet>', '').strip().replace(' - ', '_').replace(' ','_')
print(sh_2_fname)
sh2f = open(sh_2_fname+".csv", "w")
firstSheet = False
else:
sh2f.close()
sh_2_fname = line.replace('<New Sheet>', '').strip().replace(' - ', '_').replace(' ','_')
print(sh_2_fname)
sh2f = open(sh_2_fname+".csv", "w")
else:
sh2f.write(line)
sh2f.close()
I've tested all anwers, but they were all too slow for me. If you have Excel installed you can use the COM.
I thought initially it would be slower since it will load everything for the actual Excel application, but it isn't for huge files. Maybe because the algorithm for opening and saving files runs a heavily optimized compiled code, Microsoft guys make a lot of money for it after all.
import sys
import os
import glob
from win32com.client import Dispatch
def main(path):
excel = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
if is_full_path(path):
process_file(excel, path)
else:
files = glob.glob(path)
for file_path in files:
process_file(excel, file_path)
excel.Quit()
def process_file(excel, path):
fullpath = os.path.abspath(path)
full_csv_path = os.path.splitext(fullpath)[0] + '.csv'
workbook = excel.Workbooks.Open(fullpath)
workbook.Worksheets(1).SaveAs(full_csv_path, 6)
workbook.Saved = 1
workbook.Close()
def is_full_path(path):
return path.find(":") > -1
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(sys.argv[1])
This is very raw code and won't check for errors, print help or anything, it will just create a csv file for each file that matches the pattern you entered in the function so you can batch process a lot of files only launching excel application once.
As much as I hate to rely on Windows Excel proprietary software, which is not cross-platform, my testing of csvkit for .xls, which uses xlrd under the hood, failed to correctly parse dates (even when using the commandline parameters to specify strptime format).
For example, this xls file, when parsed with csvkit, will convert cell G1 of 12/31/2002 to 37621, whereas when converted to csv via excel -> save_as (using below) cell G1 will be "December 31, 2002".
import re
import os
from win32com.client import Dispatch
xlCSVMSDOS = 24
class CsvConverter(object):
def __init__(self, *, input_dir, output_dir):
self._excel = None
self.input_dir = input_dir
self.output_dir = output_dir
if not os.path.isdir(self.output_dir):
os.makedirs(self.output_dir)
def isSheetEmpty(self, sheet):
# https://archive.is/RuxR7
# WorksheetFunction.CountA(ActiveSheet.UsedRange) = 0 And ActiveSheet.Shapes.Count = 0
return \
(not self._excel.WorksheetFunction.CountA(sheet.UsedRange)) \
and \
(not sheet.Shapes.Count)
def getNonEmptySheets(self, wb, as_name=False):
return [ \
(sheet.Name if as_name else sheet) \
for sheet in wb.Sheets \
if not self.isSheetEmpty(sheet) \
]
def saveWorkbookAsCsv(self, wb, csv_path):
non_empty_sheet_names = self.getNonEmptySheets(wb, as_name=True)
assert (len(non_empty_sheet_names) == 1), \
"Expected exactly 1 sheet but found %i non-empty sheets: '%s'" \
%(
len(non_empty_sheet_names),
"', '".join(name.replace("'", r"\'") for name in non_empty_sheet_names)
)
wb.Worksheets(non_empty_sheet_names[0]).SaveAs(csv_path, xlCSVMSDOS)
wb.Saved = 1
def isXlsFilename(self, filename):
return bool(re.search(r'(?i)\.xls$', filename))
def batchConvertXlsToCsv(self):
xls_names = tuple( filename for filename in next(os.walk(self.input_dir))[2] if self.isXlsFilename(filename) )
self._excel = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
try:
for xls_name in xls_names:
csv_path = os.path.join(self.output_dir, '%s.csv' %os.path.splitext(xls_name)[0])
if not os.path.isfile(csv_path):
workbook = self._excel.Workbooks.Open(os.path.join(self.input_dir, xls_name))
try:
self.saveWorkbookAsCsv(workbook, csv_path)
finally:
workbook.Close()
finally:
if not len(self._excel.Workbooks):
self._excel.Quit()
self._excel = None
if __name__ == '__main__':
self = CsvConverter(
input_dir='C:\\data\\xls\\',
output_dir='C:\\data\\csv\\'
)
self.batchConvertXlsToCsv()
The above will take an input_dir containing .xls and output them to output_dir as .csv -- it will assert that there is exactly 1 non-empty sheet in the .xls; if you need to handle multiple sheets into multiple csv then you'll need to edit saveWorkbookAsCsv.
I was trying to use xlrd library in order to convert the format xlsx into csv, but I was getting error: xlrd.biffh.XLRDError: Excel xlsx file; not supported. That was happening because this package is no longer reading any other format unless xls, according to xlrd documentation.
Following the answer from Chris Withers I was able to change the engine for the function read_excel() from pandas, then I was able to a create a function that is converting any sheet from your Excel spreadsheet you want to successfully.
In order to work the function below, don't forget to install the openpyxl library from here.
Function:
import os
import pathlib
import pandas as pd
# Function to convert excel spreadsheet into csv format
def Excel_to_csv():
# Excel file full path
excel_file = os.path.join(os.path.sep, pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve(), "Excel_Spreadsheet.xlsx")
# Excel sheets
excel_sheets = ['Sheet1', 'Sheet2', 'Sheet3']
for sheet in excel_sheets:
# Create dataframe for each sheet
df = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_excel(excel_file, sheet, index_col=None, engine='openpyxl'))
# Export to csv. i.e: sheet_name.csv
df.to_csv(os.path.join(os.path.sep, pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve(), sheet + '.csv'), sep=",", encoding='utf-8', index=False, header=True)
# Runs the excel_to_csv function:
Excel_to_csv()