pandas.ExcelWriter #
Class for writing DataFrame objects into excel sheets.
Default is to use:
xlsxwriter for xlsx files if xlsxwriter is installed otherwise openpyxl
odswriter for ods files
See DataFrame.to_excel for typical usage.
The writer should be used as a context manager. Otherwise, call close() to save and close any opened file handles.
Path to xls or xlsx or ods file.
Engine to use for writing. If None, defaults to io.excel.<extension>.writer . NOTE: can only be passed as a keyword argument.
Format string for dates written into Excel files (e.g. ‘YYYY-MM-DD’).
Format string for datetime objects written into Excel files. (e.g. ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’).
File mode to use (write or append). Append does not work with fsspec URLs.
Extra options that make sense for a particular storage connection, e.g. host, port, username, password, etc. For HTTP(S) URLs the key-value pairs are forwarded to urllib.request.Request as header options. For other URLs (e.g. starting with “s3://”, and “gcs://”) the key-value pairs are forwarded to fsspec.open . Please see fsspec and urllib for more details, and for more examples on storage options refer here .
How to behave when trying to write to a sheet that already exists (append mode only).
error: raise a ValueError.
new: Create a new sheet, with a name determined by the engine.
replace: Delete the contents of the sheet before writing to it.
overlay: Write contents to the existing sheet without first removing, but possibly over top of, the existing contents.
New in version 1.3.0.
Changed in version 1.4.0: Added overlay option
Keyword arguments to be passed into the engine. These will be passed to the following functions of the respective engines:
xlsxwriter: xlsxwriter.Workbook(file, **engine_kwargs)
openpyxl (write mode): openpyxl.Workbook(**engine_kwargs)
openpyxl (append mode): openpyxl.load_workbook(file, **engine_kwargs)
odswriter: odf.opendocument.OpenDocumentSpreadsheet(**engine_kwargs)
For compatibility with CSV writers, ExcelWriter serializes lists and dicts to strings before writing.
Default usage:
To write to separate sheets in a single file:
You can set the date format or datetime format:
You can also append to an existing Excel file:
Here, the if_sheet_exists parameter can be set to replace a sheet if it already exists:
You can also write multiple DataFrames to a single sheet. Note that the if_sheet_exists parameter needs to be set to overlay :
You can store Excel file in RAM:
You can pack Excel file into zip archive:
You can specify additional arguments to the underlying engine:
In append mode, engine_kwargs are passed through to openpyxl’s load_workbook :
| Book instance. |
| Format string for dates written into Excel files (e.g. 'YYYY-MM-DD'). |
| Format string for dates written into Excel files (e.g. 'YYYY-MM-DD'). |
| Name of engine. |
| How to behave when writing to a sheet that already exists in append mode. |
| Mapping of sheet names to sheet objects. |
| Extensions that writer engine supports. |
(ext) | checks that path's extension against the Writer's supported extensions. |
() | synonym for save, to make it more file-like |
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Generating a file larger than 2GB causes Excel to display an alert to repair workbook #656
tshingy commented Oct 1, 2019 • edited
| Hi, I am using XlsxWriter to generate a report that includes images. If the generated report is more than 2GB, Excel alerts to repair the report. I am using Python version 3.7.1 and XlsxWriter 1.1.8 and Excel version 16.0.11929.20288 The Excel repair log is version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <recoveryLog xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main"> <logFileName>Repair Result to test10.xml</logFileName> <summary>Errors were detected in file '/Users/bhip-mn-m05/PycharmProjects/playground/test1.xlsx'</summary> <additionalInfo><info>Excel completed file level validation and repair. Some parts of this workbook may have been repaired or discarded.</info></additionalInfo> </recoveryLog>Here's the code that demonstrates the problem: xlsxwriter book = xlsxwriter.Workbook('test1.xlsx') book.use_zip64() sheet = book.add_worksheet() for x in range(5000): sheet.set_row(x, 200) sheet.insert_image('A' + str(x+1), 'large_image.jpg', {'x_scale':0.1, 'y_scale':0.1}) book.close() |
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jmcnamara commented Oct 1, 2019
| Can you attach the image so I can run the example. Also, is the issue related to the size of the file or the number of images? I.e., can you reproduce the issue without images? |
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tshingy commented Oct 2, 2019
| I believe it is related to the size of the generated report file. By using a smaller image size, the generated xlsx is less than 2GB and I am able to open it without an issue. Attached is an image that causes the above code to generate a corrupt xlsx file.
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jmcnamara commented Oct 5, 2019
| For context in the following discussion: an Excel xlsx file is a collection of XML files in a zip container. XlsxWriter creates the XML files and then uses the Python zipfile.py standard library to zip the file. I've looked into this issue in some detail and it looks like it is an issue with zipfile.py's handling of ZIP64 files. For example here is the output from the utility (note the error on the second last line): Also, if I unzip the XML files and then re-zip them using system zip on macOS or WinZip on Windows Excel is able to file. So the issue isn't with the XML files, produces by XlsxWriter, but with the zip container. In addition this issue doesn't occur with the . As such I don't think this is a XlsxWriter issue and it probably isn't fixable since the issue in a standard lib. |
| P.S. In this particular case (with repeated images) the issue will be resolved when (Feature request: Merge duplicate images) is fixed. |
jmcnamara commented Oct 7, 2019
| could you help me look at this to confirm or invalidate my assumption that this is a zip file issue. . The Python version can be 2 or 3. xlsxwriter book = xlsxwriter.Workbook('test1.xlsx') book.use_zip64() sheet = book.add_worksheet() for x in range(4000): sheet.set_row(x, 200) sheet.insert_image('A' + str(x+1), 'large_image.jpg', {'x_scale':0.1, 'y_scale':0.1}) book.close()Thanks for your help. |
pmqs commented Oct 7, 2019
| Once I found a disk with enough space, I reproduced the issue when I open the spreadsheet in Excel.
Let's see what the standard thinks about the zip container thinks the container is OK as well. didn't see a problem either. I suspect you are running an older version of . See for the latest version. I tried saving the recovered spreadsheet, to see if I could compare the two zip containers, but it looks like Excel spots that the image is being duplicated and only stores one instance of it in the zip container. The only unusual thing I can see with the zip container is that it is in format, but doesn't actually need to be. The size is a lot less than 4Gig and the number of members in the archive is nowhere near the 65,535 limit that would mandate a archive. This shouldn't be enough to prevent an application like Excel from processing the container correctly, but you never know. |
pmqs commented Oct 7, 2019 • edited
| The plot thickens. I've tried re-zipping the excel spreadsheet using the code below Usage for this script is
When I tried that I didn't encounter any issue when loading the rewritten file into Excel. Looks like this is a zip container issue. There are differences in the structure of the two files, but both are valid zip containers. Key difference: Python only used the Zip64 extensions in each of the members of the zip archive if it has to; the Perl code does the opposite - it uses them. I presume then that this is an issue with ? |
jmcnamara commented Oct 8, 2019
| Thanks for looking into this. . See for the latest version.You are right. Things look okay with the newer version. I've tried re-zipping the excel spreadsheet using the code below Yes. I saw the same thing when I rezipped with system zip on Mac and WinZip on Windows. Also, I don't see this issue with the Perl version of the lib. Here is an equivalent test case: !/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Excel::Writer::XLSX; my $workbook = Excel::Writer::XLSX->new( 'test2.xlsx' ); my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet(); for my $x (0 .. 4000 -1) { $worksheet->set_row($x, 200); $worksheet->insert_image($x, 0, 'large_image.jpg', 0, 0, 0.1, 0.1 ) } $workbook->close();The output from this can be read by Excel and XML contents of this and the Python version are exactly the same. Therefore, the issue is that Excel doesn't like something in the Python zipfile.py produced zipfile. Also, did you notice that Excel throws an error/warning almost immediately. This indicates that the issue is with the zip container rather than the contents. has to; the Perl code does the opposite - it uses them.That may be the issue. |
pmqs commented Oct 8, 2019
| Also, I don't see this issue with the Perl version of the lib. Here is an equivalent test case: Unless you have a new install of , the zip container will not be . Support for was only added in the last couple of weeks. Yes. Excel is being picky about the structure of the zip container. Yes - it throws the error immediately. has to; the Perl code does the opposite - it uses them.That may be the issue. I think it is. Found this -- . It argues that the issue is with the zip container. I don't see anything in the API that would force it to create a Excel-compliant container, plus I'm not clear on what triggers to actually uses the extensions. I created a tiny spreadsheet, and included the method, but seemed to know that it could ignore that completely. There we no fields used at all. Also, in the spreadsheet, although it used a couple of extensions, it didn't need to use them at all. There may be a size threshold it is using as a heuristic to guess that it may need . Without a change to , I think the best you can do is document that the method can sometimes create a spreadsheet that Excel will complain about, but that the warning can be ignored. |
| . It argues that the issue is with the zip container. Great link. That is insteresting. , I think the best you can do is document that the method can sometimes create a spreadsheet that Excel will complain about, but that the warning can be ignored.Good idea. I think that is the best/only way to handle it. Thanks for your help. I'll close this after I update the docs. John |
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Word doesn’t divide your book into chapters for you like some other programs. There will be no easy way to click and drag to rearrange chapters.
What I recommend is using headings. On Word’s Home page, there are already standard headings listed. Definitely mess with them and change their formatting to something simple.
No one needs giant blue words as their chapter headings. (You can set your simpler formatting as your default style as well, so you don’t have to change it every time.)
Make the title or number of each chapter a heading. Then you can easily bounce around to different chapters through the navigation pane (check the Navigation Pane box under the View menu).
These basically work the same way as headings, but they work anywhere in your document. Have a specific scene you need to do more research on? You can bookmark it and jump back to it later.
Bookmark by going to the Insert menu and clicking Bookmark. Name your bookmark and voilà. You can delete them easily from the popup menu as well.
Find and Replace
CTRL+F brings up a simple search option to find words and phrases in your document. CTRL+H brings up the full gambit. From that dialogue box, you can search, replace certain words with others (i.e. Jennifer now becomes Julia all through the manuscript), and go to any page, section, heading, bookmark, etc. that you need to go to.
Microsoft Word is Great for Editing Your Book
Word has a ton of options for editing your story , including comments, tracking changes, and comparing documents. All of these are under the Review menu.
I use the comments feature to make notes to myself where I need to recheck facts or add description later. It’s easy to navigate through the comments with the search feature or the buttons under the Review menu. Don’t forget to remove them all before saving your document as a PDF or sending it off to an editor.
Tracking changes is awesome and a lot of editors (for short stories anyway) will use this feature to collaborate with you during the editing process. You can accept or reject changes or even revert back to the original.
Finally, make sure you have grammar and spellcheck on! Grammar check even allows you to check style issues (like how to use an ellipsis correctly ) and passive voice . It’s invaluable.
Pro tip: To keep you on track while you’re writing, turn off some of the more fine-tuning features of grammar check. There’s nothing that will ruin your flow more than a bunch of underlining you feel like you need to take care of immediately. I recommend running the full check when you’re done (or at least done for the day).
Formatting Your Book in Microsoft Word
Make sure you’re familiar with standard manuscript format for novels and formatting short stories . Take a look at those links and follow their instructions. You don’t want to get rejected out of hand because you tried some weird formatting that’s hard to look at.
One of the biggest gripes I see from editors is writers using spaces for paragraph indents. Don’t do this. It makes it super hard on them when they’re putting a book together. Instead, use the ruler in Word (under the View menu) or the paragraph settings (under the Home menu) to adjust your tabs. A half inch is standard.
Despite what most of us were taught in school, the standard is now one space after periods, not two. This is another sticking point with editors, so don’t do it. If you’re used to two, there’s a grammar check feature in Word you can turn on to highlight every time you use two spaces. Delete that extra space!
Finally, use the page break option to break for a new chapter, not enter or a million spaces. You can find the page break under the Insert menu.
Pro tip: When in doubt about your formatting, you can turn on the Show/Hide option under the Home menu (looks like a paragraph symbol) to see all your formatting symbols.
Microsoft Word is the industry standard word processing software. While limited in its features for writing books, it provides a familiar platform for writers to create, share, and review their work.
- Familiar Interface : Known and used by many, making collaboration easier.
- Extensive Features : Provides a wide range of writing and formatting tools.
- Cost : Requires a subscription to Microsoft 365.
- Lack of Book Writing Features : Despite its extensive feature set, it lacks specialized tools for book writing included with applications like Scrivener or Dabble.
- Lack of Real-Time Collaboration : While it offers some collaboration features, it falls short in real-time collaborative editing compared to some cloud-native applications like Google Docs.
Now That You've Mastered Microsoft Word, Go Write Your Book
Don’t let choosing writing software stagnate your writing. Don’t overthink it. You don’t need to keep up with the Joneses with the latest writing technology that’s trotted out on tech forums and in writing chats.
The important thing about writing a book is actually writing it . No fancy book writing software is going to help you with that.
So get writing!
Ever used Word to write a book? Do you have any more tips for how to write a book using Word? Let me know in the comments !
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Hello, so I think scrivener is still the gold standard for most novels. But does anyone else have suggestions for simpler alternatives?
I've tried a number of them for non-fiction but wanted to see your take.
Novlr. Overall it does the job pretty well. Quite lightweight on features but very intuitive and simple design. The pricing point though... Overly expensive
Dabble writing. I like it. Similar to novlr intuition with some added functionality. But it does lack some very basic features like... Changing font / font size.
Plot factory. A more upped and robust version of dabble writing. Has multiple tiers of pricing. Good plotting tool
Seequil. Among one of the cheapest, like 30 a year. It does the job well. Not too complicated.
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Pandas version 0.24.0 added the mode keyword, which allows you to append to excel workbooks without jumping through the hoops that we used to have to do. Just use mode='a' to append sheets to an existing workbook. From the documentation: with ExcelWriter('path_to_file.xlsx', mode='a') as writer: df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet3')
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It argues that the issue is with the zip container. Great link. That is insteresting. Without a change to zipfile, I think the best you can do is document that the use_zip64 method can sometimes create a spreadsheet that Excel will complain about, but that the warning can be ignored. Good idea. I think that is the best/only way to handle it.
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The exception is quite clear: openpyxl cannot read the file because it is not a zipfile.. pd.ExcelWriter(report_path, engine='openpyxl') creates a new file but as this is a completely empty file, openpyxl cannot load it. If you want to work with a file in both Pandas an openpyxl, you have to create a "book" object.
starmandell. ADMIN MOD. Best writing apps of 2020/219. Hello, so I think scrivener is still the gold standard for most novels. But does anyone else have suggestions for simpler alternatives? I've tried a number of them for non-fiction but wanted to see your take. Novlr. Overall it does the job pretty well.
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You can use style sheets for left and right pages so that the left and right page numbering is correctly placed. Please note my comment above with the reference to the documentation. If my answer has solved your problem, please click on the checkmark in the circle to the left of the answer and click on the arrow ^ for upvote.
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Your code could be simplified with the use of worksheet.add_write_handler() to detect the list and call worksheet.write_rich_string() automatically from worksheet.write without having to manually check the type. You'd think. worksheet.add_write_handler(list, xlsxwriter.worksheet.Worksheet.write_rich_string) should work but doesn't because of some issue with the varargs for that method getting ...