Comments on: Generate an Excel Formatted File Right in Python

By: David Davies

David Davies — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:37:26 +0000

A far simple method is to seperate you text with \t (python for tab) and simply write the text to a file…..

text=”Hello\tGoodbye\n1\t2″
f=open(‘c:\test.xls’,'w’)
f.write(text)
f.close()

C’est Voila 1 beautiful Excel looking something like this….

Hello Goodbye
1 2

Any not a trace of pyExcelerator in sight

By: Janos

Janos — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:00:30 +0000

Hi!

I want to change background colour of cells in excel. Similarly like in HTML. (I have HTML tables and I want to export them to excel). So I have the colour of the cells in this format: #51FF7C (~green). How can I give this colour to excel???
Thx for help.

Janos

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:27:18 +0000

I haven’t been able to open an Excel file with pyExcelerator either. There is an ImportXLS.py which can read a specified Excel file and spit out all the data with the parse_xls function. If I can get the Excel file open I can use Workbook() to add sheets, write data…

I found xlrd which can open Excel files, but can’t write. Let me know if anybody has found a way to open an existing Excel file and let pyExcelerator modify the file and save it.

By: Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher)

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:12:20 +0000

tuco, I don’t remember much from when I used this module. The code includes examples. Do any of those do what you need?

By: tuco

tuco — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:34:25 +0000

How do you open an existing Excel file? I see Workbook() has a “save” method. It would be convenient to have an “open” method too.

So far I have spent more time trying to figure how to use the module than writing code. I’m rummaging through the source and their isn’t even any COMMENTS or DOC STRINGS! A simple doc string for each method would would save hours if not days. Who has the time?