On a django site, I want to generate an excel file based on some data in the database. I'm thinking of using xlwt, but it only has a method to save the data to a file. How can get the file to the HttpResponse object? Or maybe do you know a better library? I've also found this snippet but it doesn't do what I need. All I want is a way t...
Task: I generate formated excel tables from csv-files by using the python package pyExcelerator (comparable with xlwt). I need to be able to write less-than-or-equal-to (≤) and greater-than-or-equal-to (≥) signs. So far: I can save my table as csv-files with UTF-8 encoding, so that I can view the special characters in my text editor, by...
Hi, I am using Python 2.6 + xlwt module to generate excel files. Is it possible to include an autofilter in the first row with xlwt or pyExcelerator or anything else besides COM? Thanks ...
I want to merge two cells in excel using pyExcelerator , ws.write_merge(r1=0,r2=1,c1=0, c2=0, label='test1', style=style1) #merge cell1(row=0, column=0) with cell2(row=1, column=0) Why the errors happen? AssertionErrors,0 < 0 errors ...
Hi, I want to convert the mysql database table contents to an Excel(.xls) or comma separated file(csv) using python script... Is it possible? Any one can help me? Thanks in advance, Nimmy ...
Hi, Using the python module xlwt, writing to the same cell twice throws an error: Message File Name Line Position Traceback <module> S:\******** write C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\xlwt\Worksheet.py 1003 write C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\xlwt\Row.py 231 insert_cell C:\Py...
I retrieve the data of chinese characters from DB and write the data into excel by xlwt, code as below: ws0.write(0,0, unicode(cell, 'big5')) It is ok under Windows, but when I deloyed it under Linux, the data in excel garbled, Could you help to do with it? ...
I am unable to find examples where xlwt is used to write into existing files. I have a existing xls file that I need to write to. When I use xlrd to read the file, I cant seem to figure out how to transform the "Book" type returned into a xlwt.Workbook. I would appreciate if someone can point me to an example. ...
I'm writing an Excel spreadsheet with Python's xlwt and I need numbers to be formatted using "." as thousands separator, as it is in brazilian portuguese language. I have tried: style.num_format_str = r'#,##0' And it sets the thousands separator as ','. If I try setting num_format_str to '#.##0', I'll get number formatted as 1234.000 ...
Hi, i just finish some MYSQL to excel script with xlwt and I need to colour every second row for easy reading. I have tried this: row = easyxf('pattern: pattern solid, fore_colour blue') for i in range(0,10,2): ws0.row(i).set_style(row) Alone this colouring is fine, but when when I write my data rows are again white. Can some ple...
Hello, just a quick question, how to add percent sign to numbers without modifying number. I have tried format percent with myStyleFont.num_format_str = '0.00%' but it multiplies with 100 but I need just to append percent. Ty in advance. Regards. ...
I'm trying to write some dates from one excel spreadsheet to another. Currently, I'm getting a representation in excel that isn't quite what I want such as this: "40299.2501157407" I can get the date to print out fine to the console, however it doesn't seem to work right writing to the excel spreadsheet -- the data must be a date type i...
I am enormously impressed with the ease of use of XLWT, but there is one thing I have not figured out how to do. I am trying to adjust certain rows to the minimum width they would need to display all characters (in other words, what excel would do if you double clicked on the divider between cells). I know how to adjust the column wi...
I have a Python program that creates an excel sheet, but I have been asked by one of the users to modify it so that if he hits print it will print out to landscape mode, without him having to specify this. Is there some way to set the sheet to landscape in XLWT or some similar Python library for excel? Thank you. ...
I am using Eclipse with the PyDev plugin. I am using xlwt which is for writing to an excel sheet. I have the xlwt library in my src file. I have another python file called gene_sorter.py where i try to import xlwt. using import xlwt I keep gettting back this error: File "C:\Documents and Settings\Ben Fossen\Pythonworkspace\MTBgenes\...
I'm using xlwt in python to create a Excel spreadsheet. You could interchange this for almost anything else that generates a file; it's what I want to do with the file that's important. from xlwt import * w = Workbook() #... do something w.save('filename.xls') I want to I have two use cases for the file: I stream it out to the user's...
Hey guys, I have a png file generated by Gnuplot that I need to put into an excel document using XLWT. XLWT can't import PNG's into the document, only BMP's, so I needed to convert the PNG first. I used PIL for this. Here's the relevant code: im = Image.open('%s' % os.path.join(os.getcwd(), s + '.png')) im.save('%s.bmp' % s) However...
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 xlr...