pyexcel-ods - Let you focus on data, instead of ods format

pyexcel-ods is a tiny wrapper library to read, manipulate and write data in ods fromat using python 2.6 and python 2.7. You are likely to use it with pyexcel. pyexcel-ods3 is a sister library that does the same thing but supports Python 3.3 and 3.4 and depends on lxml.

Known constraints

Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

Installation

You can install it via pip:

$ pip install pyexcel-ods

or clone it and install it:

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

Usage

As a standalone library

Write to an ods file

Here’s the sample code to write a dictionary to an ods file:

>>> from pyexcel_ods import save_data
>>> data = OrderedDict()
>>> data.update({"Sheet 1": [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]})
>>> data.update({"Sheet 2": [["row 1", "row 2", "row 3"]]})
>>> save_data("your_file.ods", data)

Read from an ods file

Here’s the sample code:

>>> from pyexcel_ods import get_data
>>> data = get_data("your_file.ods")
>>> import json
>>> print(json.dumps(data))
{"Sheet 1": [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [4.0, 5.0, 6.0]], "Sheet 2": [["row 1", "row 2", "row 3"]]}

Write an ods file to memory

Here’s the sample code to write a dictionary to an ods file:

>>> from pyexcel_ods import save_data
>>> data = OrderedDict()
>>> data.update({"Sheet 1": [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]})
>>> data.update({"Sheet 2": [[7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]]})
>>> io = StringIO()
>>> save_data(io, data)
>>> # do something with the io
>>> # In reality, you might give it to your http response
>>> # object for downloading

Read from an ods from memory

Here’s the sample code:

>>> # This is just an illustration
>>> # In reality, you might deal with ods file upload
>>> # where you will read from requests.FILES['YOUR_ODS_FILE']
>>> data = get_data(io)
>>> print(json.dumps(data))
{"Sheet 1": [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [4.0, 5.0, 6.0]], "Sheet 2": [[7.0, 8.0, 9.0], [10.0, 11.0, 12.0]]}

As a pyexcel plugin

Import it in your file to enable this plugin:

from pyexcel.ext import ods

Please note only pyexcel version 0.0.4+ support this.

Reading from an ods file

Here is the sample code:

>>> import pyexcel as pe
>>> from pyexcel.ext import ods
>>> sheet = pe.get_book(file_name="your_file.ods")
>>> sheet
Sheet Name: Sheet 1
+---+---+---+
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
+---+---+---+
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
+---+---+---+
Sheet Name: Sheet 2
+-------+-------+-------+
| row 1 | row 2 | row 3 |
+-------+-------+-------+

Writing to an ods file

Here is the sample code:

>>> sheet.save_as("another_file.ods")

Reading from a IO instance

You got to wrap the binary content with StringIO to get odf working:

>>> # This is just an illustration
>>> # In reality, you might deal with ods file upload
>>> # where you will read from requests.FILES['YOUR_ODS_FILE']
>>> odsfile = "another_file.ods"
>>> with open(odsfile, "rb") as f:
...     content = f.read()
...     r = pe.get_book(file_type="ods", file_content=content)
...     print(r)
...
Sheet Name: Sheet 1
+---+---+---+
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
+---+---+---+
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
+---+---+---+
Sheet Name: Sheet 2
+-------+-------+-------+
| row 1 | row 2 | row 3 |
+-------+-------+-------+

Writing to a StringIO instance

You need to pass a StringIO instance to Writer:

>>> data = [
...     [1, 2, 3],
...     [4, 5, 6]
... ]
>>> io = StringIO()
>>> sheet = pe.Sheet(data)
>>> sheet.save_to_memory("ods", io)
>>> # then do something with io
>>> # In reality, you might give it to your http response
>>> # object for downloading

License

New BSD License

Dependencies

1. odfpy == 0.9.6
2. pyexcel-io >= 0.0.4

Credits

ODSReader is originally written by Marco Conti

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page