Comments on: Python & Excel

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:00:19 +0000

Crap, doing a little too much evangelizing lately. Sorry for the double post.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:58:53 +0000

I also recommend the PyWorkbooks project, which I have recently written and is in Beta — it works well and has documentation for beginners.

PyWorkbooks is a module to treat open Excel or Gnumeric files (and eventually Open Office) as native python objects, and interface with them using standard calls. (i.e. B[[1, :10] will get you the first 10 points of data on row 1, the same as B[’A2:J2′], both are valid), and change it using standard calls as well.

check out the source, distutils install file, and documentation here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyworkbooks/

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:27:40 +0000

I have written a module for python to interface with excel (and Gnumeric and eventually Open Office) Worksheets natively. Check it out here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyworkbooks/files/

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:00:56 +0000

If you want to be able to call python functions from Excel as worksheet functions, menu items or macros you could take a look at PyXLL (www.pyxll.com).

cheers,
Tony

By: Chris Withers

Chris Withers — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:39:32 +0000

That website will never be for a company, it’s to try and help people find the actively maintained libraries for working with excel files in python: xlrd, xlwt and xlutils.

(The companies who do this stuff really well are plugged at the bottom of the site ;-) )

By: rick

rick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:40:47 +0000

And unfortunately Resolver 1 is so slow to be almost unusable

By: Tartley

Tartley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:12:27 +0000

Oh, thanks, but I didn’t even mean that - I had bracketted my whole first comment with tags

Hugs!

By: tim

tim — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:31:34 +0000

@Tartley: Don’t worry; I’m sure most people are capable of cutting-and-pasting a URL into their address bar. (It’s probably a Wordpress feature, btw, nothing I’ve done explicitly).

By: Tartley

Tartley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:19:23 +0000

Ohno! My ‘flagrant plug’ tags were stripped out!

By: Tartley

Tartley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:16:49 +0000

Hey,

If you’re stuck with Excel, then you should check that out. But if you just want a spreadsheet that’s written in Python, has a document object model in Python, uses cell formulae in Python, allows arbitrary Python objects as values in cells, and lets you interweave arbitrary Python code (eg. function definitions) into your spreadsheet, then you should be using Resolver One (http://resolversystems.com). (Windows only)