Saving openpyxl file via text and filestream

Question

I\'m building OpenPyXL into an application that expects a string containing the content of the excel file, for it to write via file stream.

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Answer 1

jcollado's answer is actually valid, but there is also a function (sadly not documented yet) called "save_virtual_workbook" in openpyxl.writer.excel that will take your workbook and return the workbook as a string:

from openpyxl.workbook import Workbook
from openpyxl.writer.excel import save_virtual_workbook

wb = Workbook()
print save_virtual_workbook(wb)

What you're looking for is the string returned by save_virtual_workbook()