pyexcel 0.2.1

A wrapper library that provides one API to read, manipulate and write data in different excel formats

Known constraints

Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

Feature Highlights

1. One API to handle multiple data sources:

   • physical file

   • memory file

   • SQLAlchemy table

   • Django Model

   • Python data stuctures: dictionary, records and array

2. One application programming interface(API) to read and write data in various excel file formats.

Available Plugins

Plugins	Supported file formats
pyexcel-io	csv, csvz, tsv, tsvz
pyexcel-xls	xls, xlsx(r), xlsm(r)
pyexcel-xlsx	xlsx
pyexcel-ods	ods (python 2.6, 2.7 only)
pyexcel-ods3	ods
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/pyexcel/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(url="http://your.domain.com/path/to/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

License

New BSD License

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 reused from flask.