A python library to read and write structured data in csv, zipped csvformat and to/from databases
Project description
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Known constraints
Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.
Nor to read password protected xls, xlsx and ods files.
Introduction
pyexcel-io provides one application programming interface(API) to read and write the data in excel format, import the data into and export the data from database. It provides support for csv(z) format, django database and sqlalchemy supported databases. Its supported file formats are extended to cover “xls”, “xlsx”, “ods” by the following extensions:
Package name | Supported file formats | Dependencies |
---|---|---|
pyexcel-io | csv, csvz [1], tsv, tsvz [2] | |
pyexcel-xls | xls, xlsx(read only), xlsm(read only) | xlrd, xlwt |
pyexcel-xlsx | xlsx | openpyxl |
pyexcel-ods3 | ods | pyexcel-ezodf, lxml |
pyexcel-ods | ods | odfpy |
Package name | Supported file formats | Dependencies |
---|---|---|
pyexcel-xlsxw | xlsx(write only) | XlsxWriter |
pyexcel-libxlsxw | xlsx(write only) | libxlsxwriter |
pyexcel-xlsxr | xlsx(read only) | lxml |
pyexcel-xlsbr | xlsb(read only) | pyxlsb |
pyexcel-odsr | read only for ods, fods | lxml |
pyexcel-odsw | write only for ods | loxun |
pyexcel-htmlr | html(read only) | lxml,html5lib |
pyexcel-pdfr | pdf(read only) | camelot |
Plugin shopping guide
Since 2020, all pyexcel-io plugins have dropped the support for python version lower than 3.6. If you want to use any python verions, please use pyexcel-io and its plugins version lower than 0.6.0.
Except csv files, xls, xlsx and ods files are a zip of a folder containing a lot of xml files
The dedicated readers for excel files can stream read
In order to manage the list of plugins installed, you need to use pip to add or remove a plugin. When you use virtualenv, you can have different plugins per virtual environment. In the situation where you have multiple plugins that does the same thing in your environment, you need to tell pyexcel which plugin to use per function call. For example, pyexcel-ods and pyexcel-odsr, and you want to get_array to use pyexcel-odsr. You need to append get_array(…, library=’pyexcel-odsr’).
Footnotes
[1] | zipped csv file |
[2] | zipped tsv file |
If you need to manipulate the data, you might do it yourself or use its brother library pyexcel .
If you would like to extend it, you may use it to write your own extension to handle a specific file format.
Installation
You can install pyexcel-io via pip:
$ pip install pyexcel-io
or clone it and install it:
$ git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-io.git
$ cd pyexcel-io
$ python setup.py install
Development guide
Development steps for code changes
- git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-io.git
- cd pyexcel-io
Upgrade your setup tools and pip. They are needed for development and testing only:
- pip install –upgrade setuptools pip
Then install relevant development requirements:
- pip install -r rnd_requirements.txt # if such a file exists
- pip install -r requirements.txt
- pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
Once you have finished your changes, please provide test case(s), relevant documentation and update CHANGELOG.rst.
Note
As to rnd_requirements.txt, usually, it is created when a dependent library is not released. Once the dependecy is installed (will be released), the future version of the dependency in the requirements.txt will be valid.
How to test your contribution
Although nose and doctest are both used in code testing, it is adviable that unit tests are put in tests. doctest is incorporated only to make sure the code examples in documentation remain valid across different development releases.
On Linux/Unix systems, please launch your tests like this:
$ make
On Windows systems, please issue this command:
> test.bat
Before you commit
Please run:
$ make format
so as to beautify your code otherwise travis-ci may fail your unit test.
License
New BSD License
Change log
0.6.3 - 12.10.2020
fixed
- #96: regression: unknown file type shall trigger NoSupportingPluginFound
updated
- extra dependencies uses 0.6.0 based plugins
0.6.1 - 7.10.2020
removed
- python 3.6 lower versions are no longer supported
updated
- pyexcel-io plugin interface has been rewritten. PyInstaller user will be impacted. please read ‘Packaging with Pyinstaller’ in the documentation.
- new query set reader plugin. pyexcel<=0.6.4 has used intrusive way of getting query set source done. it is against the plugin interface.
fixed
- #74: handle zip files which contain non-UTF-8 encoded files.
added
- #86: allow trailing options, get_data(…keep_trailing_empty_cells=True).
0.5.20 - 17.7.2019
updated
- #70: when the given file is a root directory, the error shall read it is not a file
0.5.19 - 14.7.2019
updated
- pyexcel#185: handle stream conversion if file type(html) needs string content then bytes to handle
0.5.10 - 27.11.2018
added
- #57, long type will not be written in ods. please use string type. And if the integer is equal or greater than 10 to the power of 16, it will not be written either in ods. In both situation, IntegerPrecisionLossError will be raised. And this version enables pyexcel-ods and pyexcel-ods3 to do so.
0.5.8 - 16.08.2018
added
- #49, support additional options when detecting float values in csv format. default_float_nan, ignore_nan_text
0.5.5 - 23.12.2017
fixed
- Issue #45, csv reader throws exception because google app engine does not support mmap. People who are not working with google app engine, need not to take this update. Enjoy your Christmas break.
0.5.3 - 23.10.2017
updated
- pyexcel pyexcel#105, remove gease from setup_requires, introduced by 0.5.2.
- remove python2.6 test support
0.5.2 - 20.10.2017
added
- pyexcel#103, include LICENSE file in MANIFEST.in, meaning LICENSE file will appear in the released tar ball.
0.5.0 - 30.08.2017
Added
- Collect all data type conversion codes as service.py.
Updated
- #19, use cString by default. For python, it will be a performance boost
0.4.4 - 08.08.2017
Updated
- #42, raise exception if database table name does not match the sheet name
0.4.2 - 05.07.2017
Updated
- #37, permanently fix the residue folder pyexcel by release all future releases in a clean clone.
0.4.1 - 29.06.2017
Updated
- #39, raise exception when bulk save in django fails. Please bulk_save=False if you as the developer choose to save the records one by one if bulk_save cannot be used. However, exception in one-by-one save case will be raised as well. This change is made to raise exception in the first place so that you as the developer will be suprised when it was deployed in production.
0.4.0 - 19.06.2017
Updated
- ‘built-in’ as the value to the parameter ‘library’ as parameter to invoke pyexcel-io’s built-in csv, tsv, csvz, tsvz, django and sql won’t work. It is renamed to ‘pyexcel-io’.
- built-in csv, tsv, csvz, tsvz, django and sql are lazy loaded.
- pyexcel-io plugin interface has been updated. v0.3.x plugins won’t work.
- #32, csv and csvz file handle are made sure to be closed. File close mechanism is enfored.
- iget_data function is introduced to cope with dangling file handle issue.
Removed
- Removed plugin loading code and lml is used instead
0.3.4 - 18.05.2017
Updated
- #33, handle mmap object differently given as file content. This issue has put in a priority to single sheet csv over multiple sheets in a single memory stream. The latter format is pyexcel own creation but is rarely used. In latter case, multiple_sheet=True should be passed along get_data.
- #34, treat mmap object as a file content.
- #35, encoding parameter take no effect when given along with file content
- use ZIP_DEFALTED to really do the compression
0.3.1 - 21.01.2017
Added
- updated versions of extra packages
Updated
- #23, provide helpful message when old pyexcel plugin exists
- restored previously available diagnosis message for missing libraries
0.3.0 - 22.12.2016
Added
- lazy loading of plugins. for example, pyexcel-xls is not entirely loaded until xls format is used at its first attempted reading or writing. Since it is loaded, it will not be loaded in the second io action.
- pyexcel-xls#11, make case-insensitive for file type
0.2.4 - 24.11.2016
Updated
- #23, Failed to convert long integer string in python 2 to its actual value
0.2.3 - 16.09.2016
Added
0.2.2 - 31.08.2016
Added
- support pagination. two pairs: start_row, row_limit and start_column, column_limit help you deal with large files.
- skip_empty_rows=True was introduced. To include empty rows, put it to False.
Updated
- #20, pyexcel-io attempts to parse cell contents of ‘infinity’ as a float/int, crashes
0.2.1 - 11.07.2016
Added
- csv format: handle utf-16 encoded csv files. Potentially being able to decode other formats if correct “encoding” is provided
- csv format: write utf-16 encoded files. Potentially other encoding is also supported
- support stdin as input stream and stdout as output stream
Updated
- Attention, user of pyexcel-io! No longer io stream validation is performed in python 3. The guideline is: io.StringIO for csv, tsv only, otherwise BytesIO for xlsx, xls, ods. You can use RWManager.get_io to produce a correct stream type for you.
- #15, support foreign django/sql foreign key
0.2.0 - 01.06.2016
Added
- autoload of pyexcel-io plugins
- auto detect datetime, float and int. Detection can be switched off by auto_detect_datetime, auto_detect_float, auto_detect_int
0.1.0 - 17.01.2016
Added
- yield key word to return generator as content
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