pyexcel

pyexcel is a wrapper library to read, manipulate and write data in different excel formats: csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm. Its mission is to let you focus on data itself and it deals with different file formats. ODS format support is provided by pyexcel-ods or pyexcel-ods3. Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

It was created due to the lack of uniform programming interface to access data in different formats. A developer needs to use different methods of different libraries to read the same data in different excel formats, hence the resulting code is cluttered and unmaintainable.

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

Usage

>>> import pyexcel as pe
>>> book = pe.load_book("your_file.xls")
>>> book.to_dict() # v0.0.7
{"Sheet 1":[[1, 2, 3], ["4", "5", "6"]], "Sheet 2": [["a", "b", "c"], ["e", "f", "g"]], "Sheet 3":[[True, True, False]]}
>>> # access first sheet's top left cell
>>> print(book["Sheet 1"]["A1"])
1
>>> # alternative access to the same cell
>>> print(book["Sheet 1"][0,0])
1

Documentation

Latest document is hosted at pyexcel@read the docs and latest stable version is hosted in pyexcel@pyhosted

Latest stable

0.0.6

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

Open Document Spreadsheet(ods) Support

In order to add ods support, please choose one of two packages: pyexcel-ods or pyexcel-ods3 . Please read individual installation instructions respectively. Here is the comparsion of two packages:

package	python 2.6	python 2.7	python 3.3	python 3.4	lxml dependent
pyexcel-ods	yes	yes			no
pyexcel-ods3		yes	yes	yes	yes

Plugin compatibility management

pyexcel	ods	ods3
v0.0.1	n/a	n/a
v0.0.2
v0.0.3
v0.0.4	0.0.1	0.0.1
v0.0.5
v0.0.6	0.0.2	0.0.2

Test

Here is the test command:

pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
make test

On Windows, please use:

test.bat

Test coverage is shown in codecov.io . For more local test coverage, you can add --cover-html --cover-html-dir=your_file_directory to test.sh or test.bat

Known Issues

• If a zero was typed in a DATE formatted field in xls, you will get "01/01/1900".
• If a zero was typed in a TIME formatted field in xls, you will get "00:00:00".

Acknowledgement

Extension management code was copied from flask.