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Re: Excel column 256 limit

Subject Re: Excel column 256 limit
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Date 2013-03-19 15:22 +0100
From "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:07:54 +0100, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:

> On 2013-03-18, Ana Dion?sio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I still get the error and I use Excel 2010.
>>
>> I'm trying to export data in a list to Excel
>
> xlrd: Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel
> (tm).
>
> It is for *reading* Excel files, not writing them. To get data
> into Excel use the csv module and create the file using the
> default 'excel-csv' format. Then load the file using Excel.
>
> Creating an Excel file directly in Python is possible, but I
> think it will require use of the Pywin32 extensions.
>

I use and recommend http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/ for creating Excel  
files from Python.
No trouble so far.

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Excel column 256 limit Ana Dionísio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 08:28 -0700
  Re: Excel column 256 limit Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-18 11:48 -0400
    Re: Excel column 256 limit Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-18 16:28 +0000
  Re: Excel column 256 limit Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-18 15:50 +0000
    Re: Excel column 256 limit "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> - 2013-03-18 18:38 +0100
      Re: Excel column 256 limit Ana Dionísio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 12:00 -0700
        Re: Excel column 256 limit Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-03-18 20:04 +0100
        Re: Excel column 256 limit Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-19 14:07 +0000
          Re: Excel column 256 limit "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> - 2013-03-19 15:22 +0100
          Re: Excel column 256 limit Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-03-19 09:44 -0500
          Re: Excel column 256 limit Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 16:09 -0600
            Re: Excel column 256 limit Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-20 14:17 +0000
      Re: Excel column 256 limit Ana Dionísio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 12:00 -0700
    Re: Excel column 256 limit Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-03-19 15:25 +0000
  Re: Excel column 256 limit Dietmar Schwertberger <maillist@schwertberger.de> - 2013-03-18 18:00 +0100
  Re: Excel column 256 limit jmcnamara13@gmail.com - 2013-03-30 09:43 -0700

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