I am trying to import a file from xlsx into a Python Pandas dataframe. I would like to prevent fields/columns being interpreted as integers and thus losing leading zeros or other desired heterogenous formatting. So for an Excel sheet with 100 columns, I would do the following using a dict comprehension with range(99). These import files do have a varying
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Python pandas write resulted dataframe to xlsm without losing the macro
I have a lot of excel files that I need to compile into a single excel file, and then copy the compiled one into an existing excel file (with macro / .xlsm) in a certain sheet. I solved the first problem (compiling multiple excel files into a single excel file). The resulted dataframe is saved in .csv format. The resulted
Is there a way to set up start viewing position in excel sheet?
Normally Excel remembers where you stopped at a sheet and when you open it next time it takes you right there. Is there a way to set up such a position when generating the document? Answer With the pywin32 package, you can control Excel with COM and automate anything that Excel can do. Here’s an example that creates a simple
How to insert a picture into Excel at a specified cell position with python (Anaconda) use vba
I try to use this link with vba code but in Python it doesn’t work. AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last) in () 9 sheet.Cells(20, 20).Select 10 #obj1=sheet.Shapes.AddPicture (r’C:/Users/Home/Desktop/picture.jpg’, False, True, 10, 3, 100, 100) —> 11 obj1=wb.ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert(r’C:/Users/Home/Desktop/picture.jpg’) 12 obj1.ShapeRange 13 obj1.ShapeRange.LockAspectRatio = msoTrue AttributeError: ‘function’ object has no attribute ‘Insert’ Answer Unless you absolutely need to use VBA, this
how to count number of filled cells in each column of excel using python
I have a sheet in Excel which is not structured data as you can see here . I tried using xlrd package but this is giving me the maximum row count for a column. But I need filled cell count for each column. Could anyone suggest solution. Answer You can try to iterate through every row and check whether the
How to dump a dictionary into an .xlsx file with proper column alignment?
I have a dictionary with 2000 items which looks like this: Given that I want to write it to an .xlsx file, I use this code (taken from here): This produces an .xlsx file with the following alignment: However, this is the alignment I am after: What should I change in the script to achieve this? Answer This is what
Python Pandas dataframe reading exact specified range in an excel sheet
I have a lot of different table (and other unstructured data in an excel sheet) .. I need to create a dataframe out of range ‘A3:D20’ from ‘Sheet2’ of Excel sheet ‘data’. All examples that I come across drilldown up to sheet level, but not how to pick it from an exact range. Once I get this, I plan to
String/regex search over Excel in Python issue
I’m a newb to SO, and relatively new to Python, so i’m sorry if this is a simple fix or an inappropriate question. Firstly, my program generally works, but i’m trying to implement some redundancy/catchalls for to make it robust. The program looks over a directory (and sub-dirs) of excel files, opens them individually, scours for data (on a specific
Copying the segment from one Excel file to another with python: xlrd and xlsxwriter
I am trying to copy an entire segment of an Excel sheet to another file. The segment is actually a header/description, which mainly describes the attributes of the file, the date it was created, etc… All this takes some cells at first five rows and first 3 columns, say from A1:C3. Here’s the code I’ve written (for sake of example,
How to write German umlauts to a spreadsheet with xlsxwriter in Python
I already tried this one, but when I open the Excel spreadsheet, the whole Excel file is blank. Is there another way? Answer Excel, and XlsxWriter, use either ASCII or UTF-8. To write a string like that in Python 2: Encode the file as UTF-8. Include the “coding” directive at the start of the file. Use u” to indicate a