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

What about using a StringIO object to save the contents of the file:

from openpyxl.workbook import Workbook
from StringIO import StringIO

output = StringIO()
wb = Workbook()
wb.save(output)
print output.getvalue()

The string you're looking for is what is being printed in the last line of this example.