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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
#https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/example_unicode_polish_utf8.html | |
############################################################################## | |
# | |
# A simple example of converting some Unicode text to an Excel file using | |
# the XlsxWriter Python module. | |
# | |
# This example generates a spreadsheet with some Polish text from a file | |
# with UTF8 encoded text. | |
# | |
# Copyright 2013-2016, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org | |
# | |
import codecs | |
import xlsxwriter | |
import sys | |
# Open the input file with the correct encoding. | |
textfile = codecs.open(sys.argv[1], 'r', 'utf-8') | |
outname = sys.argv[1].split('.')[0] + '.xlsx' | |
print outname | |
# Create an new Excel file and convert the text data. | |
workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook(outname) | |
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet() | |
# Widen the first column to make the text clearer. | |
worksheet.set_column('A:A', 50) | |
# Start from the first cell. | |
row = 0 | |
col = 0 | |
# Read the text file and write it to the worksheet. | |
for line in textfile: | |
# Ignore the comments in the text file. | |
if line.startswith('#'): | |
continue | |
# Write any other lines to the worksheet. | |
worksheet.write(row, col, line.rstrip("\n")) | |
row += 1 | |
workbook.close() |
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