How to write to an existing excel file without ove

Question

I use pandas to write to excel file in the following fashion:

import pandas

writer = pandas.ExcelWriter('Masterfile.xlsx') 

data_filtered.to_excel(writer, "Main", cols=['Diff1', 'Diff2'])

writer.save()

Masterfile.xlsx already consists of number of different tabs.

Pandas correctly writes to "Main" sheet, unfortunately it also deletes all other tabs.

Answer 1

I know this is an older thread, but this is the first item you find when searching, and the above solutions don't work if you need to retain charts in a workbook that you already have created. In that case, xlwings is a better option - it allows you to write to the excel book and keeps the charts/chart data.

simple example:

import xlwings as xw
import pandas as pd

#create DF
months = ['2017-01','2017-02','2017-03','2017-04','2017-05','2017-06','2017-07','2017-08','2017-09','2017-10','2017-11','2017-12']
value1 = [x * 5+5 for x in range(len(months))]
df = pd.DataFrame(value1, index = months, columns = ['value1'])
df['value2'] = df['value1']+5
df['value3'] = df['value2']+5

#load workbook that has a chart in it
wb = xw.Book('C:\\data\\bookwithChart.xlsx')

ws = wb.sheets['chartData']

ws.range('A1').options(index=False).value = df

wb = xw.Book('C:\\data\\bookwithChart_updated.xlsx')

xw.apps[0].quit()

Answer 2

def append_sheet_to_master(self, master_file_path, current_file_path, sheet_name):
    try:
        master_book = load_workbook(master_file_path)
        master_writer = pandas.ExcelWriter(master_file_path, engine='openpyxl')
        master_writer.book = master_book
        master_writer.sheets = dict((ws.title, ws) for ws in master_book.worksheets)
        current_frames = pandas.ExcelFile(current_file_path).parse(pandas.ExcelFile(current_file_path).sheet_names[0],
                                                               header=None,
                                                               index_col=None)
        current_frames.to_excel(master_writer, sheet_name, index=None, header=False)

        master_writer.save()
    except Exception as e:
        raise e

This works perfectly fine only thing is that formatting of the master file(file to which we add new sheet) is lost.