nicexcel 0.1.7

A package for writing nicely formatted Pandas dataframes in Excel data files

nicexcel is a lightweight Python package that provides the possibility of exporting pandas native DataFrame objects into nicely formatted MS Excel files.

The package leverages pandas and openpyxl open-source Python libraries to add some simple aesthetic details to output Excel files. This improves the overall aspect and usability of the files, hence, it can help in the automation of reporting activities.

1. Column widths auto-adapted to fit characters contained inside them
2. Header row containing filterable columns within Excel (by default)
3. Header row freezed (by default)
4. No indexing by default (vs pandas default index set on)
5. Easy possibility of number formatting of columns, within dict arguments

Getting started with to_excel()

The nicexcel package main functionality consists in the exporting of pandas.DataFrame object. The to_excel() method is conceived as a wrapper of the popular pd.DataFrame.to_excel() that takes two key inputs:

• df: pd.DataFrame instance
• filename: string containing file path where the output .xlsx file will be saved

See below a simple example of application

import nicexcel as nl
import pandas as pd

# instantiate mock data
mock_df = pd.DataFrame({'Product Line': ["T-Shirts", "Jeans", "Jackets"], 
'Yearly Revenues': [30000.0411, 45513.1228, 10220.103],
'Gross Margin (%)': [0.223, 0.1151, 0.458]})

# column format
cols_format = {'Integer': ['Yearly Income'], '%': ['Gross Margin (%)']}

# generate nicely formatted excel
nl.to_excel(
    df=mock_df,
    filename='output.xlsx',
    cols_format=cols_format
    )

A second method: to_excel_ms()

In a similar fashion, the nicexcel.to_excel_ms() [^1] allows the possibility of exporting a group of different pd.DataFrame objects to the same output .xlsx files on different worksheets.

The method takes two main arguments

• dfs: dict of pd.DataFrame instances
• filename: string containing file path where the output .xlsx file will be saved

See a sample application below.

import nicexcel as nl

# get sample data
df1 = ...
df2 = ...

# initiate dataframe
dfs = {'  ': df1, ' ': df2}

# column format, fix this
cols_format = {'Integer': ['Yearly Income'], '%': ['Margin (%)']}

# generate nicely formatted excel
nl.to_excel_ms(
    dfs=dfs,
    filename='output.xlsx',
    cols_format=cols_format
    )

)

Documentation

The documentation is available in docstrings provided within the code.