I am trying to add a sheet to the excel file: ex.xls and whenever I do it deletes all the previously made sheets.
How do I add a sheet to this excel file without deleting the other sheets?
Here is my code to create a sheet:
import xlwt
import xlrd
wb = Workbook()
Sheet1 = wb.add_sheet('Sheet1')
wb.save('ex.xls')
I believe this is the only way to do what you want:
import xlrd, xlwt
from xlutils.copy import copy as xl_copy
# open existing workbook
rb = xlrd.open_workbook('ex.xls', formatting_info=True)
# make a copy of it
wb = xl_copy(rb)
# add sheet to workbook with existing sheets
Sheet1 = wb.add_sheet('Sheet1')
wb.save('ex.xls')
Below is using "openpyxl" to create a new sheet in an excel workbook.
import openpyxl
wb=openpyxl.load_workbook("Example_Excel.xlsx")
wb.create_sheet("Sheet1")
If the sheets or workbook do not exist yet you will get an error, to avoid this
import openpyxl
wb=openpyxl.load_workbook("Example_Excel.xlsx")
try:
wb["Sheet1"]
except:
wb.create_sheet("Sheet1")
Depending on how you want to use it below is an example of writing info to multiple pages
import openpyxl
work_book = 'Example_Excel.xlsx'
sheets = "Sheet1","Sheet2","Sheet3","Sheet4","Sheet5"
for current_sheet in sheets:
wb=openpyxl.load_workbook(work_book)
#if the sheet doesn't exist, create a new sheet
try:
wb[current_sheet]
except:
wb.create_sheet(current_sheet)
#wait for user to press "Enter" before starting on next sheet
raw_input("Press Enter to continue...")
#The code for you wish repeated for each page
#This example will print the sheet name to "B2" cell on that sheet
cell ="B"+str(2)
sheet=wb[current_sheet]
sheet[cell].value= current_sheet