xlwings
xlwings is a Python library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa. It works with Excel on Windows and macOS as well as with Google Sheets and Excel on the web. (by xlwings)
python-docx
Create and modify Word documents with Python (by python-openxml)
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| xlwings | python-docx | |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 6 | |
| 2,834 | 4,179 | |
| 1.2% | 2.6% | |
| 8.5 | 8.3 | |
| 22 days ago | 12 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xlwings
Posts with mentions or reviews of xlwings.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
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Python in Excel: Combining the Power of Python and the Flexibility of Excel
Reading the headline, I initially thought that Microsoft bought the company behind XLWings [1], which also enables you to use Excel directly within Excel, even locally. Not affiliated in any kind to that company, just used it in the past.
[1] https://www.xlwings.org/
- Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
- Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis
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Running python from excel
xlWings https://www.xlwings.org/
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Creating slicers with xlwings
I'm trying to automate a report and I know xlwings does not support pivot tables and slicers, as it is essentially a pywin32 wrapper. You can directly reference the COM object using .api and constants
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VM for python automation projects
Also you can also use xlwings library to build an excel add-on to replace or even augment VBA.
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Help with Python automation at work to free up time as single Dad.
You want xlwings (my preferred) or openpyxl
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[Question] Can I automate this? Sending emails with a file that needs to be updated.
You could look at using Python from Excel using xlwings.
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Microsoft upgrades Office security by blocking VBA macros by default
Xlwings is superior anyway.
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Any ways to use excel to run a, say, python script?
xlwings - open source and free - https://www.xlwings.org/
python-docx
Posts with mentions or reviews of python-docx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
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What Would Go in Your Dream Documentation Solution?
So, what I'd like to do is write a documentation package in Python to recreate what I've lost. I plan to build upon the fantastic python-docx and docxtpl packages, and I'll probably rely on pandas from much of the tabular stuff. Here are the features I intend to include:
- Can someone please help why I'm getting this error?
- See unknow person with a problem in Stackoverflow: writes a library for her
- \begin{mess}
- Generating Report with Python
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xlwings and python-docx you can also consider the following projects:
openpyxl
docxtpl - Use a docx as a jinja2 template
XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.
pyexcel - Single API for reading, manipulating and writing data in csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files
python-pptx - Create Open XML PowerPoint documents in Python
xlwt
unoconv - Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
Marmir - Python powered spreadsheets