Writing to an Excel spreadsheet

Question

I am new to Python. I need to write some data from my program to a spreadsheet. I\'ve searched online and there seem to be many packages available (xlwt, XlsXcessive, openpy

Answer 1

If your need is to modify an existing workbook, the safest way would be to use pyoo. You need to have some libraries installed and it takes a few hoops to jump through but once its set up, this would be bulletproof as you are leveraging the wide and solid API's of LibreOffice / OpenOffice.

Please see my Gist on how to set up a linux system and do some basic coding using pyoo.

Here is an example of the code:

#!/usr/local/bin/python3
import pyoo
# Connect to LibreOffice using a named pipe 
# (named in the soffice process startup)
desktop = pyoo.Desktop(pipe='oo_pyuno')
wkbk = desktop.open_spreadsheet("")
sheet = wkbk.sheets['Sheet1']
# Write value 'foo' to cell E5 on Sheet1
sheet[4,4].value='foo'
wkbk.save()
wkbk.close()