Copying excel data into a python list in IPython using clipboard?

Question

Is there a way to perform the following workflow:

1. Select cells in an Excel spreadsheet
2. Copy them using Ctrl+C
3. Get the content the selected cells

Answer 1

Here is what I usually do:

1: get a csv file

Copy-paste the cells you want into a new Excel document. Click 'File' then 'Save as'. Select 'Save as type: CSV' . Close Excel and open the file with notepad or other editor.

Now you have something like this:

1, 2, 3
4, 5, 6

2: get a python list

You can either

• use csv to load your csv file; or
• use the search/replace functionality of your editor to replace start/end of lines with '[' and ']' then copy paste to ipython.