I am working on a project where I am writing out onto an xlsx spreadsheet and need to format the one column for 'Date'. I get the program to run and all but the column format is still set to 'General'.
Try this in a different way with different code to see if anyone answers.:
for row in cur.execute('''SELECT `Mapline`,`Plant`,`Date`,`Action` from AEReport'''):
lengthOfHeadings = len(row)
output = '%s-%s.xlsx' % ("AEReport",now.strftime("%m%d%Y-%H%M"))
workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook(output, {'strings_to_numbers':True})
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()
format=workbook.add_format({'font_size':'8','border':True})
format2=workbook.add_format({'font_size':'8','border':True,'num_format':'mm/dd/yy hh:mm'})
count = 0
for name in range(0,lengthOfHeadings):
if name==row[2]:
name=int(name)
worksheet.write(counter, count, row[name],format2)
else:
worksheet.write(counter, count, row[name],format)
count += 1
counter += 1
Slihthinden
To get the date time format working, you would have to get the date value converted to a excel serial date value.
Here is an example showing how does it work:
import pandas as pd
data = pd.DataFrame({'test_date':pd.date_range('1/1/2011', periods=12, freq='M') })
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('test.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')
data.test_date = data.test_date - pd.datetime(1899, 12, 31)
pd.core.format.header_style = None
data.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='test', index=False)
workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['test']
formatdict = {'num_format':'mm/dd/yyyy'}
fmt = workbook.add_format(formatdict)
worksheet.set_column('A:A', None, fmt)
writer.save()