Delete (remove) column in google sheet over gspread Python like sheet.delete_row

Is there a method like worksheet.delete_row in gspread google-sheet? I tried:

delete = sheet.range('A1:A1000')
        for cell in delete:
            cell.value = ""
            sheet.update_cells(delete)

but that only delete all values, not column. Can anybode help me?

Answer

Answer:

There is no method in gspread to delete an entire column, like Workbook.delete_row, however you can do this with a batch update.

Code sample:

spreadsheetId = "your-spreadsheet-id"
sheetId = "id-of-sheet-to-delete-column-from"

sh = client.open_by_key(spreadsheetId)

request = {
    "requests": [
        {
            "deleteDimension": {
                "range": {
                    "sheetId": sheetId,
                    "dimension": "COLUMNS",
                    "startIndex": 0,
                    "endIndex": 1
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
result = sh.batch_update(request)

This sample will delete column A, but make sure to change the startIndex and endIndex to be of the column range you wish to delete.

Edit: If you do not know the sheetId of a given sheet, you can get it using the following:

sheetName = "theSheetName"
sheetId = sh.worksheet(sheetName)._properties["sheetId"]

Note that this is not needed for the original sheet of a Spreadsheet, as this will always be 0.

References:

• Method: spreadsheets.batchUpdate | Sheets API | Google Developers
• API References – gspread 3.4.0 documentation – batch_update(body)

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Update 2020-04-15:

This script was merged with gspread master today from pull request #759 as method delete_column().

The method will be available in the next release v3.5.0.

A method for delete_columns() was also added as a parallel method to the existing delete_rows() from pull request #761.