Edit existing excel workbooks and sheets with xlrd and xlwt

Question

In the documentation for xlrd and xlwt I have learned the following:

How to read from existing work-books/sheets:

from xlrd         


        

Answer 1

Here's another way of doing the code above using the openpyxl module that's compatible with xlsx. From what I've seen so far, it also keeps formatting.

from openpyxl import load_workbook
wb = load_workbook('names.xlsx')
ws = wb['SheetName']
ws['A1'] = 'A1'
wb.save('names.xlsx')