hfexcel 0.0.17 
human friendly excel creation in python. simplicity within a certain complexity..
development versions of dependencies
- Python 3.x
- XlsxWriter==1.1.8
- jsonschema==2.6.0
- pytest
- codecov
- pytest-cov
install
pip install hfexcel
features
- Human readable coding, building
- Support for any custom json schema: flexible api to build a helper of your own. There are already two helpers which you can see in the examples.
- Object-Obriented based readable models:
HFExcelWorkbook,HFExcelSheet,HFExcelColumn,HFExcelColumn HFExcelWorkbookFilter: Helper class to populate Excel from a JSON data (pythondict) with a pre-defined json schema. (default:hfexcel.schemas.DEFAULT_SCHEMA)HFExcelWorkbook.output: Output creation onfilename (string)input being null, and createdoutputparameter with the typeBytesIOlinked to workbook itself
playground
example of converting nested objects {sheet>column>row} input from json format into excel format
from hfexcel import HFExcel
from hfexcel.schemas import DEFAULT_SCHEMA
excel_data = {
"sheets": [
{
"key": "sheet1",
"name": "Example Sheet 1",
"columns": [
{
"name": "Column 1",
"width": 2,
"args": [
"headline"
],
"rows": [
{
"data": "Column 1 Row 1"
},
{
"data": "Column 1 Row 2"
}
]
},
{
"name": "Column 2",
"rows": [
{
"data": "Column 2 Row 1",
},
{
"data": "Column 2 Row 2",
}
]
},
{
"name": "Column 3",
"rows": [
{
"data": "Column 3 Row 1"
},
{
"data": "Column 3 Row 2"
}
]
}
]
}
],
"styles": [
{
"name": "headline",
"style": {
"bold": 1,
"font_size": 14,
"font": "Arial",
"align": "center"
}
}
]
}
hf_workbook = HFExcel.hf_workbook('example.xlsx', set_default_styles=False)
hf_workbook.filter().populate_with_json(excel_data, schema=DEFAULT_SCHEMA)
hf_workbook.save()example of object-oriented python syntax
from hfexcel import HFExcel
hf_workbook = HFExcel.hf_workbook('example.xlsx', set_default_styles=False)
hf_workbook.add_style(
"headline",
{
"bold": 1,
"font_size": 14,
"font": "Arial",
"align": "center"
}
)
sheet1 = hf_workbook.add_sheet("sheet1", name="Example Sheet 1")
column1, _ = sheet1.add_column('headline', name='Column 1', width=2)
column1.add_row(data='Column 1 Row 1')
column1.add_row(data='Column 1 Row 2')
column2, _ = sheet1.add_column(name='Column 2')
column2.add_row(data='Column 2 Row 1')
column2.add_row(data='Column 2 Row 2')
column3, _ = sheet1.add_column(name='Column 3')
column3.add_row(data='Column 3 Row 1')
column3.add_row(data='Column 3 Row 2')
# In order to get a row with coordinates:
# sheet[column_index][row_index] => row
print(sheet1[1][1].data)
assert(sheet1[1][1].data == 'Column 2 Row 2')
hf_workbook.save()example of converting inline index-based {sheet>[column:row]} input from json format into excel format
from hfexcel import HFExcel
from hfexcel.extras import InlineInputHelper
excel_data = {
"sheets": [
{
"key": "sheet1",
"name": "Example Sheet 1",
"columns": [
{
"name": "Column 1",
"width": 2,
"args": [
"headline"
]
},
{
"name": "Column 2"
}
],
"rows": [
[
{
"data": "Column 1 Row 1"
},
{
"data": "Column 2 Row 1"
}
],
[
{
"data": "Column 1 Row 2"
},
{
"data": "Column 2 Row 2"
}
]
]
}
],
"styles": [
{
"name": "headline",
"style": {
"bold": 1,
"font_size": 14,
"font": "Arial",
"align": "center"
}
}
]
}
hf_workbook = HFExcel.hf_workbook(filename, set_default_styles=False)
InlineInputHelper(hf_workbook).populate_with_json(excel_data)
hf_workbook.save()
return Trueexample output file
contributors
- @ebsaral - author
- feel free to contribute
dependencies
- @jmcnamara: Based on XlsxWriter https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter (to have a human readable object-oriented design on writing Excel documents)
- @Julian: JSON Schema Validation, jsonschema https://github.com/Julian/jsonschema
warning
- Happy path tests are written.