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pyexcel-io provides one application programming interface(API) to read and write the data in excel format, import the data into and export the data from database. It provides support for csv(z) format, django database and sqlalchemy supported databases. Its supported file formats are extended to cover "xls", "xlsx", "ods" by the following extensions:

In order to manage the list of plugins installed, you need to use pip to add or remove a plugin. When you use virtualenv, you can have different plugins per virtual environment. In the situation where you have multiple plugins that does the same thing in your environment, you need to tell pyexcel which plugin to use per function call. For example, pyexcel-ods and pyexcel-odsr, and you want to get_array to use pyexcel-odsr. You need to append get_array(..., library='pyexcel-odsr').

Footnotes

If you need to manipulate the data, you might do it yourself or use its brother library pyexcel .

If you would like to extend it, you may use it to write your own extension to handle a specific file format.

You can install pyexcel-io via pip:

$ pip install pyexcel-io

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-io.git
$ cd pyexcel-io
$ python setup.py install

Development steps for code changes

1. git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-io.git
2. cd pyexcel-io

Upgrade your setup tools and pip. They are needed for development and testing only:

1. pip install --upgrade setuptools pip

Then install relevant development requirements:

1. pip install -r rnd_requirements.txt # if such a file exists
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. pip install -r tests/requirements.txt

Once you have finished your changes, please provide test case(s), relevant documentation and update CHANGELOG.rst.

Although nose and doctest are both used in code testing, it is adviable that unit tests are put in tests. doctest is incorporated only to make sure the code examples in documentation remain valid across different development releases.

On Linux/Unix systems, please launch your tests like this:

$ make

On Windows systems, please issue this command:

> test.bat

Additional steps are required:

1. pip install moban
2. git clone https://github.com/moremoban/setupmobans.git # generic setup
3. git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-commons.git commons
4. make your changes in .moban.d directory, then issue command moban

Many information that are shared across pyexcel projects, such as: this developer guide, license info, etc. are stored in pyexcel-commons project.

.moban.d stores the specific meta data for the library.

1. Has Test cases written
2. Has all code lines tested
3. Passes all Travis CI builds
4. Has fair amount of documentation if your change is complex
5. Please update CHANGELOG.rst
6. Please add yourself to CONTRIBUTORS.rst
7. Agree on NEW BSD License for your contribution

New BSD License