Python xlwt – accessing existing cell content, auto-adjust column width

I just implemented a wrapper class that tracks the widths of items as you enter them. It seems to work pretty well. import arial10 class FitSheetWrapper(object): “””Try to fit columns to max size of any entry. To use, wrap this around a worksheet returned from the workbook’s add_sheet method, like follows: sheet = FitSheetWrapper(book.add_sheet(sheet_name)) The … Read more

Convert date from excel in number format to date format python [duplicate]

from datetime import datetime excel_date = 42139 dt = datetime.fromordinal(datetime(1900, 1, 1).toordinal() + excel_date – 2) tt = dt.timetuple() print(dt) print(tt) As mentioned by J.F. Sebastian, this answer only works for any date after 1900/03/01 EDIT: (in answer to @R.K) If your excel_date is a float number, use this code: from datetime import datetime def … Read more

Insert row into Excel spreadsheet using openpyxl in Python

== Updated to a fully functional version, based on feedback here: groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openpyxl-users/wHGecdQg3Iw. == As the others have pointed out, openpyxl does not provide this functionality, but I have extended the Worksheet class as follows to implement inserting rows. Hope this proves useful to others. def insert_rows(self, row_idx, cnt, above=False, copy_style=True, fill_formulae=True): “””Inserts new (empty) rows … Read more

Get formula from Excel cell with python xlrd

[Dis]claimer: I’m the author/maintainer of xlrd. The documentation references to formula text are about “name” formulas; read the section “Named references, constants, formulas, and macros” near the start of the docs. These formulas are associated sheet-wide or book-wide to a name; they are not associated with individual cells. Examples: PI maps to =22/7, SALES maps … Read more

Reading Excel File using Python, how do I get the values of a specific column with indicated column name?

A somewhat late answer, but with pandas, it is possible to get directly a column of an excel file: import pandas df = pandas.read_excel(‘sample.xls’) #print the column names print df.columns #get the values for a given column values = df[‘Arm_id’].values #get a data frame with selected columns FORMAT = [‘Arm_id’, ‘DSPName’, ‘Pincode’] df_selected = df[FORMAT] … Read more