Use is trivial as shown below:

from wikitoexcel import wikiToExcel
w2e = wikiToExcel(infile="./wikitbl.txt")
# print the html representation of wiki markup
print w2e.getHTML()
# save excel file to out.xlsx
w2e.saveExcel(fileName="out.xlsx")

Options are:

wikiToExcel(wikiContent=<wikistr>, infile=<wikiTextFile>)

wikitoexcel can capture:

• Font styling: bold, underline, strikethrough
• Cell styling: foreground color, background color
• Supports merged cells
• Sheet name is captured as caption of the wiki table
• Multiline cell contents are styled with 'wrap' in excel
• span and div elements are converted to their inner text representation
• HyperLinks are addressed in a way that the hyperlink and display text are presented side by side. This facilitates round-trip between exceltowiki and wikitoexcel. Such as: http://yahoo.com Yahoo!

wikitoexcel currently cannot capture anything more complex than the above list. Features such as a font styling within a paragraph is not captured.

If implementing this as a web.py call:

• You can construct a simple HTML form post with a textarea (below assumes textarea name is 'wikitoexcel')
• Add the following class

class wikitoexcel():
            def POST(self):
                    formdata=web.input()
                    w2e=wikiToExcel(wikiContent= formdata['wikitoexcel'])
                    sbuf= StringIO.StringIO()
                    w2e.saveExcel(fileObj=sbuf)
                    web.header('Content-type','application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet')
                    return sbuf.getvalue()

A few more options: support for color names automatically create a row if no row exists

Minor update to handling empty cells or with  . And some cleanup

Bug found and fixed for creating a worksheet.

Clean up of setup.py and minor changes

• Added option to output in inline format using double pipe separator notation vs line by line format.
• Set the package level variable: wikitoexcel.INLINE_FMT=True (default)
• To allow multiline text, a BR tag is replaced for each return character

Added license file Rewrote parser to retain wikimarkup within cells. This allows an excel user to passthrough wiki markup.

Packaging was not following best practice of examples within the package.

Initial Release