Googlesheet APIv4 getting empty cells

Question

I have a googlesheet where a column may contain no information in it. While iterating through the rows and looking at that column, if the column is blank, it\'s not returni

Answer 1

Another option is iterating through the returned rows, checking the length of the row and appending whatever data you were expecting to be returned. I found this preferable to adding junk data to my dataset.

Answer 2

If last cell in row has a value then the row will be returned fully for example:

Rows:

|Nick|29 years|Minsk|
|Mike|        |Pinsk|
|Boby|        |     |

Return:

[
  ["Nick", "29 years", "Minsk"],
  ["Mike", "", "Pinsk"]
  ["Boby"]
]

So when you add a new line with empty cells instead of empty("" or null) just use space " "

And then when you read values just map all items from space " " to empty ""

Rows:

|Nick|29 years|Minsk|
|Mike|        |Pinsk|
|Boby|        |"  " |

Return:

[
  ["Nick", "29 years", "Minsk"],
  ["Mike", "", "Pinsk"]
  ["Boby", "", " "]
]

Answer 3

The only solution I could find is writing your own function:

def _safe_get(data, r, c):   
    try:
        return data[r][c]
    except IndexError:
        return ''

def read(range_name, service):
    result = service[0].spreadsheets().values().get(spreadsheetId=service[1],
                                                range=range_name).execute()
    return result.get('values', [])

def safe_read(sheet, row, col, to_row='', to_col='', service=None):
        range_name = '%s!%s%i:%s%s' % (sheet, col, row, to_col, to_row)
        data = read(range_name, service)

    if to_col == '':
        cols = max(len(line) for line in data)
    else:
        cols = ord(to_col.lower()) - ord(col.lower()) + 1
    if to_row == '':
        rows = len(data)
    else:
        rows = to_row - row + 1

    return [[_safe_get(data, r, c)
             for c in range(cols)]
            for r in range(rows)]