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Re: Excel column 256 limit

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-03-19 16:09 -0600
Subject Re: Excel column 256 limit
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2013-03-19 14:07, Neil Cerutti 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.
>
> There's xlrd[1] for reading and xlwt[2] for writing native XLS files.
> If the OP needs greater control over things like formatting and
> formula-cells, I'd suggest xlwt, as CSV restricts you to shoveling
> around the data, not its formatting.

xlwt however only writes .xls files, not the newer .xlsx files, so it
is still subject to the 256-column limit no matter what version of
Excel you use to open the workbook.

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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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