Copying a row from a range of Excel files to another

[Cecil Westerhof]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> writes:

> I was asked to copy a certain line from about 300 Excel lines to a new
> Excel file. That is not something I would like to do by hand and I
> immediately thought: that should be possible with Python.
>
> And it is. I was surprised how fast I could write that with openpyxl.
> My first try was not very neat, but a proof of concept. Then by
> looking better at the possibilities I could get much cleaner code. But
> I am still not completely happy. At the moment I have the following
> code:
>     wb_out = Workbook()
>     for filepath in filepathArr:
>         current_row = []
>         wb_in       = load_workbook(filepath)
>         for cell in wb_in.active[src_row]:
>             current_row.append(cell.value)
>         wb_out.active.append(current_row)
>         wb_in.close()
>     wb_out.save(report_start + datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') + report_end)
>     wb_out.close()
>
> I could not find a way to copy a row from one workbook to another.
> That is why I put the row in current_row and do an append. Am I
> overlooking something, or is that really the way to do this?
>
>
> I am not used to writing GUI programs. (I have to learn tkinter also.)
> What is the best way to handle potential errors? It could go wrong on
> line 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Should I catch every exception alone, or
> all together, or something in between?

I rewrote it like:
    wb_in  = None
    wb_out = None
    try:
        wb_out = Workbook()
        for filepath in filepathArr:
            current_row = []
            wb_in       = load_workbook(filepath)
            for cell in wb_in.active[src_row]:
                current_row.append(cell.value)
            wb_out.active.append(current_row)
            wb_in.close()
        wb_out.save(report_start + datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') + report_end)
        wb_out.close()
        messagebox.showinfo(info_str, created_report)
    except Exception as err:
        if wb_in:
            wb_in.close()
        if wb_out:
            wb_close
        messagebox.showerror(error_str,
                             error_generate + '\n\n\n\n' + str(err))

Is it necessary to close the workbooks to circumvent a resource leak?
Is it a problem when a workbook is closed two times? If so I need to
make sure that this is not possible.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof