I am writing a python script to read data from an excel sheet using xlrd. Few of the cells of the the work sheet are highlighted with different color and I want to identify the color code of the cell. Is there any way to do that ? An example would be really appreciated.
Here is one way to handle this:
import xlrd
book = xlrd.open_workbook("sample.xls", formatting_info=True)
sheets = book.sheet_names()
print "sheets are:", sheets
for index, sh in enumerate(sheets):
sheet = book.sheet_by_index(index)
print "Sheet:", sheet.name
rows, cols = sheet.nrows, sheet.ncols
print "Number of rows: %s Number of cols: %s" % (rows, cols)
for row in range(rows):
for col in range(cols):
print "row, col is:", row+1, col+1,
thecell = sheet.cell(row, col)
# could get 'dump', 'value', 'xf_index'
print thecell.value,
xfx = sheet.cell_xf_index(row, col)
xf = book.xf_list[xfx]
bgx = xf.background.pattern_colour_index
print bgx
More info on the Python-Excel Google Group.