A wrapper library to read, manipulate and write data in different excel formats: csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm.
Project description
pyexcel is a wrapper library to read, manipulate and write data in different excel formats: csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm. Its mission is to let you focus on data itself and it deals with different file formats. ODS format support is provided by pyexcel-ods or pyexcel-ods3. Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.
It was created due to the lack of uniform programming interface to access data in different formats. A developer needs to use different methods of different libraries to read the same data in different excel formats, hence the resulting code is cluttered and unmaintainable.
In addition, the library recognizes that Excel files are de-facto file format for information sharing in non-software centric organisations. Excel files are not only used for mathematical computation in financial institutions but also used for many othe purposes in an office work environment.
All great work have done by odf, ezodf(2), xlrd and other individual developers. This library unites only the data access code.
Usage
>>> import pyexcel as pe
>>> book = pe.load_book("your_file.xls")
>>> book.to_dict()
{"Sheet 1":[[1, 2, 3], ["4", "5", "6"]], "Sheet 2": [["a", "b", "c"], ["e", "f", "g"]], "Sheet 3":[[True, True, False]]}
>>> # access first sheet's top left cell
>>> print(book["Sheet 1"]["A1"])
1
>>> # alternative access to the same cell
>>> print(book["Sheet 1"][0,0])
1
Documentation
Latest document is hosted at pyexcel@read the docs and latest stable version is hosted in pyexcel@pyhosted
Latest stable
0.0.6
Installation
You can install it via pip:
$ pip install pyexcel
or clone it and install it:
$ git clone http://github.com/chfw/pyexcel.git $ cd pyexcel $ python setup.py install
Open Document Spreadsheet(ods) Support
In order to add ods support, please choose one of two packages: pyexcel-ods or pyexcel-ods3 . Please read individual installation instructions respectively. Here is the comparsion of two packages:
package |
python 2.6 |
python 2.7 |
python 3.3 |
python 3.4 |
lxml dependent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pyexcel-ods |
yes |
yes |
no |
||
pyexcel-ods3 |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Plugin compatibility management
pyexcel |
ods |
ods3 |
|---|---|---|
v0.0.7 |
||
v0.0.6 |
0.0.2 |
0.0.2 |
v0.0.5 |
||
v0.0.4 |
0.0.1 |
0.0.1 |
v0.0.3 |
||
v0.0.2 |
||
v0.0.1 |
n/a |
n/a |
Test
Here is the test command:
pip install -r tests/requirements.txt make test
On Windows, please use:
test.bat
Test coverage is shown in codecov.io . For more local test coverage, you can add –cover-html –cover-html-dir=your_file_directory to test.sh or test.bat
Known Issues
If a zero was typed in a DATE formatted field in xls, you will get “01/01/1900”.
If a zero was typed in a TIME formatted field in xls, you will get “00:00:00”.
Acknowledgement
Extension management code was copied from flask.
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