Preserving styles using python's xlrd,xlwt, and xlutils.copy

Question

Hi Folks,

I'm using xlrd, xlutils.copy, and xlwt to open up a template file, copy it, fill it with new values, and save it.

However, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to preserve the formatting of the cells; it always gets blown away and set to blank. Is there any simple way I can do this?

Thanks! /YGA

A sample script:

from xlrd import open_workbook
from xlutils.copy import copy
rb = open_workbook('output_template.xls',formatting_info=True)
rs = rb.sheet_by_index(0)
wb = copy(rb)
ws = wb.get_sheet(0)
for i,cell in enumerate(rs.col(8)):
    if not i:
        continue
    ws.write(i,2,22,plain)
wb.save('output.xls')

Versions:

• xlrd: 0.7.1
• xlwt: 0.7.2