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Jonathan Livni
Jonathan Livni

Reputation: 107072

Python: Writing to Excel 2007+ files (.xlsx files)

Is there a Python module that writes Excel 2007+ files?
I'm interested in writing a file longer than 65535 lines and only Excel 2007+ supports it.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 22323

Answers (8)

jmcnamara
jmcnamara

Reputation: 41524

The XlsxWriter Python module writes 2007+ xlsx files.

Upvotes: 7

O.O
O.O

Reputation: 1298

This should give an idea how to do that:

import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook("output_file.xlsx"))
# new sheet
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet("sheet_name")
# Add a number format: 3 digits precision
precision = workbook.add_format({'num_format': '0.000'})

for(iterate your data):
    worksheet.write(row, col, title)
    worksheet.write_number(row, col, value, precision)
    ...

workbook.close()

Upvotes: 1

googed
googed

Reputation: 11

Pyvot: http://packages.python.org/Pyvot/tutorial.html, although it is only for Excel 2010+

Upvotes: 1

chmullig
chmullig

Reputation: 13406

You should take a look at xlsxcessive. It's for writing xlsx files, and is, perhaps, a bit more pythonic.

Upvotes: 8

John Machin
John Machin

Reputation: 82924

If you are on Windows and have Excel 2007+ installed, you should be able to use pywin32 and COM to write XLSX files using almost the same code as you would would to write XLS files ... just change the "save as ...." part at the end.

Probably, you can also write XLSX files using Excel 2003 with the freely downloadable add-on kit but the number of rows per sheet would be limited to 64K.

Upvotes: 1

user225312
user225312

Reputation: 131567

There are two libraries you can take a look at.

Python-xlsx and PyXLSX

EDIT: As the comments mention, for writing you check out openpyxl

Upvotes: 10

Mark Baker
Mark Baker

Reputation: 212402

Take a look at Eric' Gazoni's openpyxl project. The code can be found on bitbucket.

Upvotes: 17

ykatchou
ykatchou

Reputation: 3727

So you want to write xlsx file, into my mind the Microsoft.office.excel.interop dll come to my mind, but not use it on a server.

I know you can call dll from python : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel(office.11).aspx

Upvotes: 0

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