How to find the first empty row of a google spread sheet using python GSPREAD?

Question

I am struggling to write codes that find me the first empty row of a google sheet.

I am using gspread package from github.com/burnash/gspread

I would be glad

Answer 1

If you can count on all of your previous rows being filled in:

len(sheet.get_all_values()) + 1

will give you the first free row

get_all_values returns a 2D list of the sheet's data. Each nested list is a row, so the length of the 2D list is the number of rows that has any data.

Similar problem is first free column:

from xlsxwriter.utility import xl_col_to_name
# Square 2D list, doesn't matter which row len you check
column_count = len(sheet.get_all_values()[0]) 
column = xl_col_to_name(column_count)