cardinal_pythonlib.excel

Original code copyright (C) 2009-2022 Rudolf Cardinal (rudolf@pobox.com).

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Functions for dealing with Excel spreadsheets.

cardinal_pythonlib.excel.convert_for_openpyxl(x: Any) → Any[source]

Converts known “unusual” data types to formats suitable for openpyxl. Specifically, handles:

  • pendulum.datetime.DateTime
  • semantic_version.Version
  • uuid.UUID
Parameters:x – a data value
Returns:the same thing, or a more suitable value!
cardinal_pythonlib.excel.convert_for_pyexcel_ods3(x: Any) → Any[source]

Converts known “unusual” data types to formats suitable for pyexcel-ods3. Specifically, handles:

  • pendulum.datetime.DateTime
  • datetime.datetime
  • semantic_version.Version
  • None
  • numpy.float64
  • uuid.UUID
Parameters:x – a data value
Returns:the same thing, or a more suitable value!
cardinal_pythonlib.excel.excel_to_bytes(wb: openpyxl.workbook.workbook.Workbook) → bytes[source]

Obtain a binary version of an openpyxl.Workbook representation of an Excel file.