I need a script to convert a comma seperated csv file to an excel xls file. I tried a python script online but i couldn't install the correct version of python to install a mod/dependency the script required. What is the best solution?
cheat: rename data.csv to data.xls. excel opens it and you never notice the difference
Look for the examples/csv2xls here: http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/Text-CSV_XS/MANIFEST
(I don't link directly to the script itself because this should always lead you to the latest version.)
The Perl ExcelWriter module will allow you to create Excel spreadsheets.
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I have a script that takes a csv and does something with it.
I'd like this script to be agnostic to the spreadsheet file type (xlsx, xls, ods for instance), and always convert the file to csv for processing. Is there a way to do this without corrupting the data in any way?
You can use a headless version of the open-source software, Libreoffice, to convert the same extensions that Libreoffice can normally do within in the GUI. This solution does require you to install the whole office suite which may be overkill depending on your particular situation.
However, via the command line, you can call Libreoffice to do this conversion:
soffice --headless --convert-to csv <input_file> --outdir </path/to/dir>
This example is under the assumption that you are using a Unix-like machine, however there should be a similar version for Windows as well (e.g. soffice.exe). Replace the <input_file> with your file name and the </path/to/dir/> to the path to the directory you want to have your output (the output directory option is opional). You can use the wildcard * as the input file, which would convert all the files in the directory to csv.
I am trying to change a number in an excel file (and eventually multiple excel files by putting it in a loop). I want to edit the file and save it as a new file, which I have done successfully. The problem is the new file that I save strips all of the formatting that the old excel file had. Correct me if I'm wrong: but I can't use Openpyxl because it only works for .xlsx files (all of the files I'm working with are .xls).
I've looked into pandas but was unsuccessful in finding a solution. I'm most familiar with xlrd and xlwt, but am willing to try any other libraries if it solves the problem.
import xlrd
from xlutils.copy import copy
from xlrd import *
# To open Workbook
loc = (r"X:\Projects\test.xls")
wb = xlrd.open_workbook(loc)
dose = wb.sheet_by_index(13)
manu = dose.cell_value(4,3)
#writing 675
w = copy(open_workbook(loc))
if manu == "Hologic":
w.get_sheet(13).write(5,3,675)
w.save('book2.xls')
Again, the code works without any errors. But the new .xls file has no formatting. The formatting is crucial for this project, so I can't lose any of it.
You probably can't.
Microsoft created xlsx files for a reason: the classic xls format is a legacy binary file piling up hundreds, maybe thousands, of features, each reprented in differing ways (and the file format was not even openly documented back then, I don't know if it is now). So there is one app that can open a xls file and guarrantee to present what is there with all the features intended by the file creator: Excel. And the same Excel version that created the file, in that.
So, any open library that can write to xls will create the most basic files, with no formatting - and be lucky if it can parse out the content parts.
xlsx files on the other hand use conforming xml files internally, and even a program that does not care to know about the full specs can change information in the file and preserve formatting and other things simply by not touching anything it does not know about, and assembling a valid xml again.
That said, if you can't convert to xlsx, maybe the easier thing to do is use Python to drive Excel itself to make the changes for you, in an automated way.
The documentation for that is few and far apart, but that is possible by using pywin32 and the "COM" api - take a look here for a start: https://pbpython.com/windows-com.html
Another option is using LibreOffice - it can read and write xls files with formatting (though surely with losses), and is scriptable in Python. Unfortunatelly, the information on how to script LibreOffice using Python to do that is also hard to find, and the legacy option of using their "UNO" thing to enable interaction with Python makes its use complicated.
I found a sort-of answer here:
https://superuser.com/questions/730249/run-command-to-open-csv-file-in-excel
But it's not enough to simply use excel to open my .CSV file; I want to import the .csv data into the excel worksheet (I can do it using the wizard built into excel if I open the program manually), but I want to do this all strictly using CMD. I have previously generated a .csv file using SQLCMD but I couldn't generate it into an excel file, so I'm trying to do this all in 2 steps instead.
I found a powershell version of what I need here: How to export a CSV to Excel using Powershell.
I made my own adjustments to fit my needs, but it worked perfectly! And I learned how to call this powershell script from my cmd/batch file so I think this will work.
I need to convert over 100 Excel files to CSV. Worse these files consist of multiple sheets and I only need one of them.
At first I stumbled upon the Perl program xls2csv. Luckily I even found on XLS file conversion at the bottom a convenient script that converts all sheets into seperate csv files. But unluckily this converter is broken and skips lines.
I also tried pyodconverter but that only converts the first sheet.
Any suggestions? It would be ok if that conversion had to be done on Windows though I would really prefer Linux. And if it has to be Windows it would be nice if it wouldn't need an Excel installation.
There's a very useful java library called Apache POI at http://poi.apache.org/
The following link provides an example application that converts xls to csv.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/src/examples/src/org/apache/poi/hssf/eventusermodel/examples/XLS2CSVmra.java
If you know java you can adjust it to your needs. Since it's java it runs also on linux.
you could also have a look at StatTransfer... (Win only, I'm afraid)
I know this is late but there is actually an HTA (HTML Application) which can do this. The details and download link can be found here.
I am running a Linux server and one of our suppliers only knows how to send me an Excel file which I need to import into our system daily. Does anyone know of a good way to export the Excel file to a delimited file? Preferably with php or perl.
Thanks!
Chris Edwards
Java library POI does this quite well, with very simple API.
http://poi.apache.org/
OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) has a scripting ability, alas, which I have never looked at. However, it seems it would be straightforward to open the Excel file using Calc, and then do a Save As .csv operation.