From 4c5d0b1a457b55c943fbff888459ad224c8a5bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DougHudgeon Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:25:50 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Instructions for opening Excel workbook and reading the first sheet --- docs/tutorial.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/tutorial.rst b/docs/tutorial.rst index 23d2773..1fe11ee 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial.rst +++ b/docs/tutorial.rst @@ -289,6 +289,14 @@ Now that we have extra meta-data on our rows, we can easily filter our :class:`D It's that simple. The original :class:`Dataset` is untouched. +Open an Excel Workbook and read first sheet +-------------------------------- + +To open an Excel 2007 and later workbook with a single sheet (or a workbook with multiple sheets but you just want the first sheet), use the following: + +data = tablib.Dataset() +data.xlsx = open('my_excel_file.xlsx', 'rb').read() +print(data) Excel Workbook With Multiple Sheets ------------------------------------