Comments on: Read Excel files from Python

By: gishi

gishi — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:42:55 +0000

hi! what if i just want to access the first row of the excel file? how is that? thanks in advance

By: c0mpumast3r

c0mpumast3r — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:20:45 +0000

nice post.

but just a question, how do we close an opened workbook?
would that be xlrd.close_workbook()??

Thanks!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:39:43 +0000

I love the library, very useful.

Although, i have a comment to make on what you said John. Excel has a way to format cells, if you change that, you will get the same result on every computer, regardless of the local settings. This is what someone else above was talking about.
I know it can be hard to take the raw data (ex: 100.0) and apply the format that is specified somewhere in the Excel file (so it gives something like: $ 100), but in many cases we want to know what people are seeing. Maybe you could make a separate function to get the shown value of the cell, or just get the format settings for the cell and let us do the treatment to get it to the shown value by ourselves.

By: zubin mehta

zubin mehta — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:42:47 +0000

Is there a way to read the hyperlinks from the excel columns file using python or xlrd?

By: prasanna

prasanna — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:14:00 +0000

Hi , Could you please help me with opening and excel .xls in append format so that i need not every time write on a new excel sheet. Please help me out with this.
Thank you
Prasanna

By: fnarr fnarr

fnarr fnarr — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:31:06 +0000

Hey thanks

very helpful…

By: john

john — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:54:08 +0000

Would someone please share or write a python script that will open an Excel file written in .XHT format (or any non-.XLS format) and save it as a .XLS format?

Thank you,

John

By: Monu

Monu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:40:51 +0000

Hi Guys,

I need a script, how to open the excel sheet using python script.

Monu

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By: John Machin

John Machin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:41:28 +0000

@Mega: One of the motivating factors behind developing xlrd was the what-you-see-is-often-NOT-what-you’ve-got problem with approaches like ODBC, COM (yes, it lies to you about floats with a $ in the format) and save-as-CSV. So xlrd tells you what data is in the file and what type it is, not what somebody with some unknown locale setting with some custom format might see on the screen. Your file contains a float, 100.0. The rest is up to you.

Forum for questions about xlrd, xlwt, xlutils: http://groups.google.com/group/python-excel … response time typically < 1 day, not two months :-)