how to convert xls to xlsx

Question

I have some *.xls(excel 2003) files， and I want to convert those files into xlsx(excel 2007).

I use the uno python package, when I save the documents, I can set the

Answer 1

I'm improve performance for @Jackypengyu method.

• XLSX: working per row, not per cell (http://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/default/api/openpyxl.worksheet.worksheet.html#openpyxl.worksheet.worksheet.Worksheet.append)
• XLS: read whole row excluding empty tail, see ragged_rows=True (http://xlrd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#xlrd.sheet.Sheet.row_slice)

Merged cells will be converted too.

Results

Convert same 12 files in same order:

Original:

0:00:01.958159
0:00:02.115891
0:00:02.018643
0:00:02.057803
0:00:01.267079
0:00:01.308073
0:00:01.245989
0:00:01.289295
0:00:01.273805
0:00:01.276003
0:00:01.293834
0:00:01.261401

Improved:

0:00:00.774101
0:00:00.734749
0:00:00.741434
0:00:00.744491
0:00:00.320796
0:00:00.279045
0:00:00.315829
0:00:00.280769
0:00:00.316380
0:00:00.289196
0:00:00.347819
0:00:00.284242

Solution

def cvt_xls_to_xlsx(*args, **kw):
    """Open and convert XLS file to openpyxl.workbook.Workbook object

    @param args: args for xlrd.open_workbook
    @param kw: kwargs for xlrd.open_workbook
    @return: openpyxl.workbook.Workbook


    You need -> from openpyxl.utils.cell import get_column_letter
    """

    book_xls = xlrd.open_workbook(*args, formatting_info=True, ragged_rows=True, **kw)
    book_xlsx = Workbook()

    sheet_names = book_xls.sheet_names()
    for sheet_index in range(len(sheet_names)):
        sheet_xls = book_xls.sheet_by_name(sheet_names[sheet_index])

        if sheet_index == 0:
            sheet_xlsx = book_xlsx.active
            sheet_xlsx.title = sheet_names[sheet_index]
        else:
            sheet_xlsx = book_xlsx.create_sheet(title=sheet_names[sheet_index])

        for crange in sheet_xls.merged_cells:
            rlo, rhi, clo, chi = crange

            sheet_xlsx.merge_cells(
                start_row=rlo + 1, end_row=rhi,
                start_column=clo + 1, end_column=chi,
            )

        def _get_xlrd_cell_value(cell):
            value = cell.value
            if cell.ctype == xlrd.XL_CELL_DATE:
                value = datetime.datetime(*xlrd.xldate_as_tuple(value, 0))

            return value

        for row in range(sheet_xls.nrows):
            sheet_xlsx.append((
                _get_xlrd_cell_value(cell)
                for cell in sheet_xls.row_slice(row, end_colx=sheet_xls.row_len(row))
            ))

        for rowx in range(sheet_xls.nrows):
            if sheet_xls.rowinfo_map[rowx].hidden != 0:
                print sheet_names[sheet_index], rowx
                sheet_xlsx.row_dimensions[rowx+1].hidden = True
        for coly in range(sheet_xls.ncols):
            if sheet_xls.colinfo_map[coly].hidden != 0:
                print sheet_names[sheet_index], coly
                coly_letter = get_column_letter(coly+1)
                sheet_xlsx.column_dimensions[coly_letter].hidden = True

    return book_xlsx