python_excel2json
A simple way to parse an excel file and get the json that you want.
Install
pip install python_excel2json
Dependencies
xlrd
Usage
from python_excel2json import parse_excel_to_json
# Step 1: Define the format of your excel that you want to parse.
excel_sheets_format = {
'start_row_sheet_parsing': 1,
'start_column_sheet_parsing': 0,
'sheet_formats': [
{
'sheet_index': 0,
'column_names': [
{
'name': 'name1',
'type': 'str'
},
{
'name': 'name2',
'type': 'str'
},
{
'name': 'name3',
'type': 'str'
},
{
'name': 'name4',
'type': 'float'
}
],
'is_ordered': True
},
{
'sheet_index': 1,
'column_names': [
{
'name': 'name1',
'type': 'str'
},
{
'name': 'name2',
'type': 'str'
},
{
'name': 'name3',
'type': 'str'
},
{
'name': 'name4',
'type': 'float'
}
],
'is_ordered': True,
'start_row_sheet_parsing': 3,
'start_column_sheet_parsing': 5
}
]
}
# Step 2: Define your excel file input. Using 'xlrd' it can be from two ways:
file = '/my/path/my-file.xlsx'
result = parse_excel_to_json(excel_sheets_format, filename=file)
file = your-excel-content
result = parse_excel_to_json(excel_sheets_format, file_contents=file)
# Step 3: Obtain your specific json result.
[
{
'sheet_index': 0,
'results': [
{
'name1': 'value',
'name2': 'value',
'name3': 'value'
},
...
]
},
{
'sheet_index': 1,
'results': [
{
'name1': 'value',
'name2': 'value',
'name3': 'value',
'name4': 'value'
},
...
]
}
]