I'm saving pandas DataFrame to_excel using xlsxwriter. I've managed to format all of my data (set column width, font size etc) except for changing header's font and I can't find the way to do it. Here's my example:
import pandas as pd
data = pd.DataFrame({'test_data': [1,2,3,4,5]})
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('test.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')
data.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='test', index=False)
workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['test']
font_fmt = workbook.add_format({'font_name': 'Arial', 'font_size': 10})
header_fmt = workbook.add_format({'font_name': 'Arial', 'font_size': 10, 'bold': True})
worksheet.set_column('A:A', None, font_fmt)
worksheet.set_row(0, None, header_fmt)
writer.save()
The penultimate line that tries to set format for the header does nothing.
I think you need first reset default header style, then you can change it:
pd.core.format.header_style = None
All together:
import pandas as pd
data = pd.DataFrame({'test_data': [1,2,3,4,5]})
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('test.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')
pd.core.format.header_style = None
data.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='test', index=False)
workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['test']
font_fmt = workbook.add_format({'font_name': 'Arial', 'font_size': 10})
header_fmt = workbook.add_format({'font_name': 'Arial', 'font_size': 10, 'bold': True})
worksheet.set_column('A:A', None, font_fmt)
worksheet.set_row(0, None, header_fmt)
writer.save()
Explaining by jmcnamara, thank you:
In Excel a cell format overrides a row format overrides a column format.The pd.core.format.header_style
is converted to a format and is applied to each cell in the header. As such the default cannot be overridden by set_row()
. Setting pd.core.format.header_style
to None
means that the header cells don't have a user defined format and thus it can be overridden by set_row()
.
EDIT: In version 0.18.1
you have to change
pd.core.format.header_style = None
to:
pd.formats.format.header_style = None
EDIT: from version 0.20 this changed again
import pandas.io.formats.excel
pandas.io.formats.excel.header_style = None
thanks krvkir.
EDIT: from version 0.24 this is now required
import pandas.io.formats.excel
pandas.io.formats.excel.ExcelFormatter.header_style = None
thanks Chris Vecchio.