What is Python Openpyxl
Python Openpyxl
Openpyxl Introduction
- Python provides the Openpyxl module, which is used to affect Excel files without involving third-party Microsoft application software.
- By using this module, we will have control over excel without open the appliance.
- It's used to perform excel tasks like read data from excel file, or write data to the excel file, draw some charts, accessing excel sheet, renaming sheet, modification (adding and deleting) in excel sheet, formatting, styling within the sheet, and the other task.
- Openpyxl is extremely efficient to perform these tasks for you.
- Data scientists often use the Openpyxl to perform different operations like data copying to data mining also as data analysis.
Openpyxl Perform
Openpyxl Working Process
- The Openpyxl library is employed to write down or read the info within the excel file and lots of other tasks.
- An excel file that we use for operation is called Workbook that contains a minimum of 1 Sheet and a maximum of tens of sheets.
- Sheets contains Rows (horizontal series) ranging from 1 and Columns (vertical series) ranging from A.
- Row and column together make a grid and form a cell which will store some data. Data are often of any type, like numeric, string.
- Openpyxl provides flexibility to read data from the individual cell or write data to it.
Openpyxl Working Process
Installation of Openpyxl
- Use Openpyxl, one should have Python 3.7 and openpyxl 2.6.2 installed within the system.
- Start working with openpyxl by installing openpyxl using the following command:
pip install Openpyxl
Openpyxl Installation
The xlsx is that the extension of the XML spreadsheet file. The xlsx file supports macros. Let's understand the essential operation related to the excel file.
Sample Code
from openpyxl import Workbook
import time
wb = Workbook()
sheet = wb.active
sheet['A1'] = 618
sheet['A2'] = "Wikitechy"
sheet['A3'] = 30.15
sheet['A4'] = 18
now = time.strftime("%x")
sheet['A5'] = now
wb.save("Wikitechy.xlsx")Output
