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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.

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 as pe
>>> an_array = [[1,2]]
>>> sheet = pe.Sheet(an_array)
>>> sheet.json
'{"pyexcel sheet": [[1, 2]]}'

Note: It is available with pyexcel v0.2.1 and pyexcel-text 0.2.0

>>> sheet.tsv
'1\t2\r\n'

Note: TSV and the rest of the formats are available with pyexcel v0.2.2 and its plugins at version 0.2.0+ only

>>> sheet.csv
'1,2\r\n'

Documentation is hosted at read the docs and pyhosted

Development steps for code changes

1. git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel.git
2. cd pyexcel
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. 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

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.

Extension management code was reused from flask.