xlwt

This is a library for developers to use to generate
spreadsheet files compatible with Microsoft Excel versions 95 to 2003.

The package itself is pure Python with no dependencies on modules or packages
outside the standard Python distribution.

Please read this before using this package:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/python-excel/P6TjJgFVjMI/g8d0eWxTBQAJ

Installation

Do the following in your virtualenv::

pip install xlwt

Quick start

.. code-block:: python

import xlwt
from datetime import datetime

style0 = xlwt.easyxf('font: name Times New Roman, color-index red, bold on',
    num_format_str='#,##0.00')
style1 = xlwt.easyxf(num_format_str='D-MMM-YY')

wb = xlwt.Workbook()
ws = wb.add_sheet('A Test Sheet')

ws.write(0, 0, 1234.56, style0)
ws.write(1, 0, datetime.now(), style1)
ws.write(2, 0, 1)
ws.write(2, 1, 1)
ws.write(2, 2, xlwt.Formula("A3+B3"))

wb.save('example.xls')

Documentation

Documentation can be found in the docs directory of the xlwt package.
If these aren't sufficient, please consult the code in the
examples directory and the source code itself.

The latest documentation can also be found at:
https://xlwt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Problems?

Try the following in this order:

Read the source
Ask a question on https://groups.google.com/group/python-excel/

Acknowledgements

xlwt is a fork of the pyExcelerator package, which was developed by
Roman V. Kiseliov. This product includes software developed by
Roman V. Kiseliov roman@kiseliov.ru.

xlwt uses ANTLR v 2.7.7 to generate its formula compiler.

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