This is something that has been answered and re-answered time and time again because the answer keeps changing with updates to pandas. I tried some of the solutions I found here and elsewhere online and none of them have worked for me on the current version of pandas. Does anyone know the current, March 2019,…
Tag: xlsxwriter
How to save a new sheet in an existing excel file, using Pandas?
I want to use excel files to store data elaborated with python. My problem is that I can’t add sheets to an existing excel file. Here I suggest a sample code to work with in order to reach this issue This code saves two DataFrames to two sheets, named “x1” and “x2” respectively. …
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 …
python xlsxwriter change row height for all rows in the sheet
Python xlsxwriter, change row height for all rows in the sheet, following is available but apply to single row Want to change height of all the rows sheet. Answer To set the height of all rows in XlsxWriter, efficiently*, you can use the set_default_row() method: (*) This is efficient because it uses an Excel…
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 …
xlswriter formatting a range
In xlswriter, once a format is defined, how can you apply it to a range and not to the whole column or the whole row? for example: this gets applied it to the whole “B” column, but how can this “perc_fmt” applied to a range, for example, if I do: it says: Answer Actually I found a work…
Simulate autofit column in xslxwriter
I would like to simulate the Excel autofit function in Python’s xlsxwriter. According to this url, it is not directly supported: http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/worksheet.html However, it should be quite straightforward to loop through each cell on the sheet and determine the maximum size for the colum…
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.…
Apply format to a cell after being written in XlsxWriter
I work on python using XlsxWriter and I’ve been trying to solve this problem with no success: My app must create an Xlsx file in which data is shown in a table-like structure. That table has some empty cells. I’d like to set borders to some cells to make a grid for the table so I use: in order to