How to use ``xlrd.xldate_as_tuple()``

Question

I am not quite sure how to use the following function:

xlrd.xldate_as_tuple

for the following data

xldate:39274.0
xldate:39         


        

Answer 1

import datetime as dt
import xlrd

log_dir = 'C:\\Users\\'
infile = 'myfile.xls'
book = xlrd.open_workbook(log_dir+infile)
sheet1 = book.sheet_by_index(0)
date_column_idx = 1

## iterate through the sheet to locate the date columns
for rownum in range(sheet1.nrows):
    rows = sheet1.row_values(rownum)

    ## check if the cell is a date; continue otherwise
    if sheet1.cell(rownum, date_column_idx).ctype != 3 :
        continue

    install_dt_tuple = xlrd.xldate_as_tuple((rows[date_column_idx ]), book.datemode)

    ## the "*date_tuple" will automatically unpack the tuple. Thanks mfitzp :-)
    date = dt.datetime(*date_tuple)