Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.ripco.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Excel column 256 limit Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <5ff118cb-a57b-45d6-9a5c-e0e3db4b0327@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1363624111 16293 64.122.56.22 (18 Mar 2013 16:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:28:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41438 On 2013-03-18, Dave Angel wrote: > On 03/18/2013 11:28 AM, Ana Dion?sio wrote: > >> Is there some way to go around this limit? I need to import data from >> python to excel and I need 1440 columns for that. > > Doesn't sound like a Python question. But one answer is Libre Office > Calc, which seems to have a 1024 column limit. [I don't see how something with a 1024 column limit is one answer for a requirement of 1440 columns.] IMO, if 256 columns isn't enough, then a spreadsheet probably isn't the right tool. If you need 1440 columns then I can't even imagine a case where a spreadsheet is the right tool. I've seen people spend weeks trying to do something with excel that would have taken a few hours using Numpy/Scipy/Scientific-Python. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want to kill at everyone here with a cute gmail.com colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!