How to import data from MySQL db into excel sheet

Prasad, Ramit ramit.prasad at jpmchase.com
Mon Jun 6 16:18:30 EDT 2011


>>> Currently i am importing the Database into CSV file using csv module, 
>>>in csv file i need to change the column width according the size of 
>>>the data. i need to set different column width for different columns 
>>>pleas let me know how to achieve this

>xlwt is a package for editing Excel files. CSV, despite being a format
>that Excel can open, is not an Excel file. A CSV is to spreadsheets
>what plain text is to word processing. It's an extremely simple, easy
>to use format programaticfally but it doesn't support any formattting
>of any kind.

Topic says importing into excel, so I assume the OP is *currently* using CSV but wants to *switch* to Excel. If that is true then the following is the syntax for it. Assuming you open a workbook and create a worksheet within with a local name of "sheet".

> sheet.col(9).width = 3200


Ramit


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