I wrote a program that lets end users add/edit data from an Excel spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is a company wide shared document, and therefore it requires users to check out the document before making any changes to it. Is there a way to programmatically check out the document using Python or any other ways that would integrate with Python well?
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
I am working on a personal project to learn python scripting for excel, and I want to learn how to move data from one workbook to another.
In this example, I am emulating a company employee ledger that has name, position, address, and more (The organizations is by row so every employee takes up one row). But the project is to have a selected number of people be transferred to a new ledger (another excel file). So I have a list of emails in a .txt file (it could even be another excel file but I thought .txt would be easier), and I would want the script to run through the .txt file, get the emails, and look for any rows that have a matching email address(all emails are in cell 'B'). And if any are found, then copy that entire row to the new excel file.
I tried a lot of ways to make this work, but I could not figure it out. I am really new to python so I am not even sure if this is possible. Would really appreciate some help!
You have essentially two packages that will allow manipulation of Excel files. For reading in data and performing analysis the standard package for use is pandas. You can save the files as .xlsx however you are only really working with base table data and not the file itself (IE, you are extracing data FROM the file, not working WITH the file)
However what you need is really to perform manipulation on Excel files directly which is better done with openpyxl
You can also read files (such as your text file) using with open function that is native to Python and is not a third party import like pandas or openpyxl.
Part of learning to program includes learning how to use documentation.
As such, here is the documentation you require with sufficient examples to learn openpyxl: https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
And you can learn about pandas here: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/index.html
And you can learn about python with open here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html
Hope this helps.
EDIT: It's possible I or another person can give you a specific example using your data / code etc, but you would have to provide it fully. Since you're learning, I suggest using the documentation or youtube.
I'm building a website that'll have a django backend. I want to be able to serve the medical billing data from a database that django will have access to. However, all of the data we receive is in excel spreadsheets. So I've been looking for a way to get the data from a spreadsheet, and then import it into a django model. I know there are some different django packages that can do this, but I'm having a hard time understanding how to use these packages. On top of that I'm using python 3 for this project. I've used win32com for automation stuff in excel in the past. I could write a function that could grab the data from the spreadsheet. Though what I want figure out is how would I write the data to a django model? Any advice is appreciated.
Use http://www.python-excel.org/ and consider this process:
Make a view where user can upload the xls file.
Open the file with xlrd. xlrd.open_workbook(filename)
Extract, create dict to map the data you want to sync in db.
Use the models to add, update or delete the information.
If you follow the process, you can learn a lot of how loading and extracting works and how does it fits with the requirements. I recommend to you first do the step 2 and 3 in shell to get more quicker experiments and avoid to be uploading/testing/error with a django view.
Hope this kickoff base works for you.
Why don't you use django-import-export?
It's a widget that allows you to import excel files from admin section.
It's very easy to install, here you find the installation tutorial, and here an example.
Excel spreadsheets are saved as .csv files, and there are plenty of examples and explanations on how to work with them, such as here and here, online already.
In general, if you are having difficulty understanding documentation or packages, my advice would be to search for specific examples or see if whatever you are trying to do has already been done. Play with it to get a working understanding, and then modify it to fit your needs.
I am trying to write a script which takes the usernames from an excel sheet in a loop and then connect to an external API of a website and get the user ID's from it and give gave the response in the excel sheet. Please help me with an example code.
I need help on two things:-
1:- How to read a particular column elements from an excel sheet
2:- Write a code in the script which uses an API of a website to feed the excel sheet usernames in it in a loop and retrieve the user ID's
For reading the information from the excel sheet take a look at https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html
For retrieving the user IDs it depends on the API itself so you would need to provide more information.
Additionally, you might want to look at this Python library for the Instagram API.
This site contains pointers to the best information available about working with Excel files in the Python programming language.
This site will show you how to use APIs with python.
I want to enable a user to export some data to a web application I am building. The data from the legacy application can be accessed through MS Acces (ODBC). The web application is written in Django/Python, but that is not very relevant.
The user would have to export data from time to time and import it into the web app. The table structure in the web app more-or-less mirrors the one in the legacy application.
My question of how to get the data from Access to a format that is easily parseable in the web app. The data is from 5 different tables and interrelated. Is there a way to serialise the data from Access into an XML / JSON file? I know that you can do an XML export, but as far as I know that is limited to a query, so I wouldn't have the hierarchy... Is there a VBA library to help with the task?
You can reference Microsoft XML, v5.0 (or whatever version) in the Visual Basic Editor and create XML programmatically.
See
- Simple example
- Introduction to XML in Microsoft Windows (in depth example)
Answering my own question here. I did some googling and it looks like you can export data from a table together with selected other tables. For that, it is necessary to draw the relationships within Access.
That might also solve my problem (and without composing the XML manually). Will find out if this works and check back later.
source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa167823(v=office.11).aspx#odc_accessnewxmlfeatures_includingrelatedtableswhenexportingxml
I'm programming a MySQL database with Web interface for remote access. I used Django as a framework. But now, I want to generate some reports using the MySQL data and modify them after generating. Therefore, I automatically think of exporting data to or importing from Word. The thing is, how I do this?
I have seen several options. One of them, using Python-docx, a library to generate docx documents in Python. I could have a problem with this, because the generated reports will be large, with lots of images, tables, pages, etc. I worked with xlsxwriter, and when the files were large it took long time to generate de xlsx. I don't know if Python-docx would be the better solution.
Other option is to import data directly from Microsoft Word, using some software for this concrete purpose or using a macro VBA. I have programmed some example code with VBA to import data of MySQL using connectors ODBC and it's immediately possible, but there is thousand of objects and classes of VBA Word to learn.
Exposed the problem, any tips or suggestions??? Thanks in advance!
Another option is to generate HTML & open as a word document.
If you take a document similar to what you want to generate & save as HTML you will see what word does. Take this file as a template for your documents