Jul 13, 2010 · Either you can use a 3rd party python module like xlrd, or save your excel file a CSV file, instead of a normal Excel file. I think the point you are missing is that an excel file has no resemblance to a plain text file. Open the Excel document in notepad and …

Mar 11, 2016 · import subprocess subprocess.check_call(['open', '-a', 'Microsoft Excel']) You can also use os and open a specific file: import os os.system("open -a 'path/Microsoft Excel.app' 'path/file.xlsx'") If you on other hand want to open an excel file within python and modify it there's a number of packages to use as xlsxwriter, xlutils and openpyxl ...

May 25, 2016 · I have an xlsx file with 1 sheet. I am trying to open it using python 3 (xlrd lib), but I get an empty file! I use this code: file_errors_location = "C:\\Users\\atheelm\\Documents\\python excel m

Jun 12, 2013 · Thought i should add here, that if you want to access rows or columns to loop through them, you do this: import pandas as pd # open the file xlsx = pd.ExcelFile("PATH\FileName.xlsx") # get the first sheet as an object sheet1 = xlsx.parse(0) # get the first column as a list you can loop through # where the is 0 in the code below change to the row or column number you want column = sheet1.icol(0 ...

May 31, 2010 · with open(csv_filename) as file: data = file.read() with open(xl_file_name, 'w') as file: file.write(data) You can turn CSV to excel like above with inbuilt packages. CSV can be handled with an inbuilt package of dictreader and dictwriter which will work the same way as python dictionary works. which makes it a ton easy I am currently unaware ...

Jan 21, 2014 · how to read password protected excel in python. How to open write reserved excel file in python with win32com? I'm trying to open a password protected file in excel without any user interaction. I searched online, and found this code which uses win32com.client When I run this, I still get the prompt to enter the password...

You can try the following implementation. from openpyxl import load_workbook import csv def update_xlsx(src, dest): #Open an xlsx for reading wb = load_workbook(filename = dest) #Get the current Active Sheet ws = wb.get_active_sheet() #You can also select a particular sheet #based on sheet name #ws = wb.get_sheet_by_name("Sheet1") #Open the csv file with open(src) as fin: #read the csv reader ...

Jan 17, 2014 · import os file = "C:\\Documents\\file.txt" os.startfile(file) This will open the file in whatever application is associated with the file extension. There are some drawbacks however, so if you want to do some more advanced handling of the file (such as closing it later), you need a more advanced approach.

Oct 5, 2016 · I'm using the following code to open and display a workbook within Excel: import win32com.client as win32 excel = win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application') wb = excel.Workbooks.Open('my_s...

May 15, 2020 · This will close the workbook if it is open. You may need to let python wait for SAP to open the file so something like the following may be necessary prior to trying to close the workbook. import time #wait for SAP to open file time.sleep(3) I …