Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

1. One API to handle multiple data sources:
   • physical file
   • memory file
   • SQLAlchemy table
   • Django Model
   • Python data stuctures: dictionary, records and array
2. One application programming interface(API) to read and write data in various excel file formats.

Recently, pyexcel(0.2.2+) and its plugins(0.2.0+) started using newer version of setuptools. Please upgrade your setup tools before install latest pyexcel components:

$ pip install --upgrade setuptools

You can install it via pip:

$ pip install pyexcel

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone http://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel.git
$ cd pyexcel
$ python setup.py install

Installation of individual plugins , please refer to individual plugin page.

>>> import pyexcel
>>> content = "1,2,3\n3,4,5"
>>> sheet = pyexcel.Sheet()
>>> sheet.csv = content
>>> sheet.array
[[1, 2, 3], [3, 4, 5]]
>>> with open("myfile.xlsx", "wb") as output:
...     output.write(sheet.xlsx)

Development steps for code changes

1. git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel.git
2. cd pyexcel
3. pip install -r rnd_requirements.txt # if such a file exists
4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. pip install -r tests/requirements.txt

In order to update test envrionment, and documentation, additional setps are required:

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

Usually, it is created when a depdent library is not released. Once the dependecy is installed(will be released), the future version of the dependency in the requirements.txt will be valid.

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.

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 test

On Windows systems, please issue this command:

> test.bat

New BSD License

All great work have done by odf, ezodf(2), xlrd, xlwt, tabulate and other individual developers. This library unites only the data access code.