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This is a library for developers to use to generatespreadsheet files compatible with Microsoft Excel versions 95 to 2003.

The package itself is pure Python with no dependencies on modules or packagesoutside the standard Python distribution.

Please read this before using this package:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/python-excel/P6TjJgFVjMI/g8d0eWxTBQAJ

Do the following in your virtualenv:

pip install xlwt

importxlwtfromdatetimeimportdatetimestyle0=xlwt.easyxf('font: name Times New Roman, color-index red, bold on',num_format_str='#,##0.00')style1=xlwt.easyxf(num_format_str='D-MMM-YY')wb=xlwt.Workbook()ws=wb.add_sheet('A Test Sheet')ws.write(0,0,1234.56,style0)ws.write(1,0,datetime.now(),style1)ws.write(2,0,1)ws.write(2,1,1)ws.write(2,2,xlwt.Formula("A3+B3"))wb.save('example.xls')

Documentation can be found in thedocs directory of the xlwt package.If these aren't sufficient, please consult the code in theexamples directory and the source code itself.

The latest documentation can also be found at:https://xlwt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Try the following in this order:

• Read the source
• Ask a question onhttps://groups.google.com/group/python-excel/

xlwt is a fork of the pyExcelerator package, which was developed byRoman V. Kiseliov. This product includes software developed byRoman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.

xlwt uses ANTLR v 2.7.7 to generate its formula compiler.