holm/openpyxl

OpenPyxl is a Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files.

It was born from lack of existing library to read/write natively from Python the new Open Office XML format.

All kudos to the PHPExcel team as openpyxl is a Python port of PHPExcel http://www.phpexcel.net/

== User List ==
Official user list can be found on http://groups.google.com/group/openpyxl-users

== Contribute ==
Any help will be greatly appreciated, there are just a few requirements to get your code checked in the public repository:

• Mercurial bundles are the preferred way of contributing code, compared to diffs written in a text file. Forks are encouraged, but don't forget to make a pull request if you want your code to be included :)
• long diffs posted in the body of a tracker request will not be looked at (more than 30 rows of non-syntax highlighted code is simply unreadable). Please attach your bundle files to the issue instead.
• every non-trivial change must come with at least a unit test (that tests the new behavior, obviously :p). There are plenty of examples in the /test directory if you lack know-how or inspiration.

== Easy Install ==
Releases are also packaged on PyPi, so all you have to type to get the latest version is:

$ easy_install openpyxl

== Features ==

** Supported data types **
* String (shared, Inline not currently supported)
* Integer
* Float
* Date

** Supported Excel features **
* Names ranges
* Number formats (built-in and custom formats)

** Handy features **
* Implicit conversion between Python types and Excel types:
* Dates
* Floats
* Percentages
* Optimized modes to read and write extremely large files

== Python 3.x support ==

Openpyxl supports python (even if some tests can fail on 2.4) from 2.4 to 2.6. If you use a more recent version of python, please use the hjunes fork you can find here : https://bitbucket.org/hjunes/openpyxl/.

== Full documentation==
With tutorial, examples, API documentation: http://packages.python.org/openpyxl/

== Quick Examples ==

=== Write a workbook ===

#!python
from openpyxl.workbook import Workbook
from openpyxl.writer.excel import ExcelWriter

from openpyxl.cell import get_column_letter

wb = Workbook()

dest_filename = r'empty_book.xlsx'

ws = wb.worksheets[0]

ws.title = "range names"

for col_idx in xrange(1, 40):
    col = get_column_letter(col_idx)
    for row in xrange(1, 600):
        ws.cell('%s%s'%(col, row)).value = '%s%s' % (col, row)

ws = wb.create_sheet()

ws.title = 'Pi'

ws.cell('F5').value = 3.14

wb.save(filename = dest_filename)

=== Read an existing workbook ===

#!python
from openpyxl.reader.excel import load_workbook

wb = load_workbook(filename = r'empty_book.xlsx')

sheet_ranges = wb.get_sheet_by_name(name = 'range names')

print sheet_ranges.cell('D18').value # D18

=== Number Formats ===

#!python
import datetime
from openpyxl.workbook import Workbook

wb = Workbook()
ws = wb.worksheets[0]

# set date using a Python datetime
ws.cell('A1').value = datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 21)

print ws.cell('A1').style.number_format.format_code # returns 'yyyy-mm-dd'

# set percentage using a string followed by the percent sign
ws.cell('B1').value = '3.14%'

print ws.cell('B1').value # returns 0.031400000000000004

print ws.cell('B1').style.number_format.format_code # returns '0%'