pyexcel 0.1.3

A wrapper library to read, manipulate and write data in different excel formats: csv, tsv, csvz, tsvz, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm.

Known constraints

Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

Available Plugins

Plugins	Supported file formats
pyexcel	csv, csvz, tsv, tsvz
pyexcel-xls	xls, xlsx(r), xlsm(r)
pyexcel-xlsx	xlsx
pyexcel-ods	ods (python 2.6, 2.7)
pyexcel-ods3	ods (python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4)
pyexcel-text	(write only)json, rst, mediawiki,latex, grid, pipe, orgtbl, plain simple

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

Installation of individual plugins , please refer to individual plugin page.

Usage

Suppose you want to process the following excel data :

Name	Age
Adam	28
Beatrice	29
Ceri	30
Dean	26

Here are the example code:

>>> import pyexcel as pe
>>> import pyexcel.ext.xls # import it to handle xls file
>>> records = pe.get_records(file_name="your_file.xls")
>>> for record in records:
...     print("%s is aged at %d" % (record['Name'], record['Age']))
Adam is aged at 28
Beatrice is aged at 29
Ceri is aged at 30
Dean is aged at 26

Documentation

Documentation is hosted at read the docs and pyhosted

Dependencies

• pyexcel-io >= 0.0.2

• texttable >= 0.8.2

Acknowledgement

All great work have done by odf, ezodf(2), xlrd, xlwt, tabulate and other individual developers. This library unites only the data access code.

Extension management code was copied from flask.