Find and replace in cells from excel in python

Question

Where I have a cell in an .xlsx file that is \"=...\" I want to replace the \"=\" with \'=, so can see the cells as strings rather than as the values.

For example,

Answer 1

As suggested openpyxl solves this problem:

import openpyxl
from openpyxl.utils.cell import get_column_letter

wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('example.xlsx')
wb.sheetnames
sheet = wb["Sheet1"]
amountOfRows = sheet.max_row
amountOfColumns = sheet.max_column

for i in range(amountOfColumns):
    for k in range(amountOfRows):
        cell = str(sheet[get_column_letter(i+1)+str(k+1)].value)
        if( str(cell[0]) == "="):
            newCell = "'=,"+cell[1:]
            sheet[get_column_letter(i+1)+str(k+1)]=newCell

wb.save('example_copy.xlsx')