The Wise Old Geek

I’ve been very busy on openpyxl the last few days, and I managed to get a working writer for basic data types (strings, numerics).

For the impatient, you can clone my bitbucket repository:

hg clone https://ericgazoni@bitbucket.org/ericgazoni/openpyxl

It’s still a work in progress, so expect some quirks here and there, and if that happens, please file a new issue here.

If you like it, you can also drop a comment below or send me an email (see Contact page).

Usage is pretty simple as you can see:

from openpyxl.workbook import Workbook
from openpyxl.writer.excel import ExcelWriter

from openpyxl.cell import get_column_letter

wb = Workbook()

ew = ExcelWriter(workbook = wb)

dest_filename = r'empty_book.xlsx'

ws = wb.worksheets[0]

ws.title = "range names"

for col_idx in xrange(1, 40):
    col = get_column_letter(col_idx)
    for row in xrange(1, 600):
        ws.cell('%s%s'%(col, row)).value = '%s%s' % (col, row)

ws = wb.create_sheet()

ws.title = 'Pi'

ws.cell('F5').value = 3.14

ew.save(filename = dest_filename)

Next features are:

1. a working reader (so that I can read back files generated by the writer)
2. dates support
3. calculations
4. formatting