hfexcel 0.0.5

human friendly excel creation in python

hfexcel 0.0.5

human friendly excel creation in python

development versions of dependencies

• Python 3.x
• XlsxWriter==1.1.8

install

pip install hfexcel

example

from hfexcel import HFExcel

excel_data = {
    "sheets": [
        {
            "key": "sheet1",
            "name": "Example Sheet 1",
            "columns": [
                {
                    "name": "Column 1",
                    "width": 2,
                    "args": [
                        "headline"
                    ],
                    "rows": [
                        {
                            "data": "Column 1 Row 1"

                        },
                        {
                            "data": "Column 1 Row 2"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "name": "Column 2",
                    "rows": [
                        {
                            "data": "Column 2 Row 1",
                        },
                        {
                            "data": "Column 2 Row 2",
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "name": "Column 3",
                    "rows": [
                        {
                            "data": "Column 3 Row 1"
                        },
                        {
                            "data": "Column 3 Row 2"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "styles": [
        {
            "name": "headline",
            "style": {
                "bold": 1,
                "font_size": 14,
                "font": "Arial",
                "align": "center"
            }
        }
    ]
}

hf_workbook = HFExcel.hf_workbook('example.xlsx', set_default_styles=False)
hf_workbook.helper.populate_with_json(excel_data)
hf_workbook.save()

or

from hfexcel import HFExcel

hf_workbook = HFExcel.hf_workbook('example.xlsx', set_default_styles=False)

hf_workbook.add_style(
    "headline", 
    {
        "bold": 1,
        "font_size": 14,
        "font": "Arial",
        "align": "center"
    }
)

sheet1 = hf_workbook.add_sheet("sheet1", name="Example Sheet 1")

column1, _ = sheet1.add_column('headline', name='Column 1', width=2)
column1.add_row(data='Column 1 Row 1')
column1.add_row(data='Column 1 Row 2')

column2, _ = sheet1.add_column(name='Column 2')
column2.add_row(data='Column 2 Row 1')
column2.add_row(data='Column 2 Row 2')


column3, _ = sheet1.add_column(name='Column 3')
column3.add_row(data='Column 3 Row 1')
column3.add_row(data='Column 3 Row 2')

# In order to get a row with coordinates:
# sheet[column_index][row_index] => row
print(sheet1[1][1].data)
assert(sheet1[1][1].data == 'Column 2 Row 2')

hf_workbook.save()

example output file

• https://github.com/ebsaral/hfexcel/blob/master/example.xlsx

contributors

• @ebsaral - author
• @jmcnamara: Based on XlsxWriter https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter (to have a human readable object-oriented design on writing Excel documents)
• feel free to contribute

warning

• Not ready for production use yet. Tests are being written. Feel free to contribute.