getting the row and column numbers from coordinate value in openpyxl

Question

I\'m trying to covert a coordinate value in excel to a row number and column number in openpyxl.

For example if my cell coordinate is D4 I want to find the correspon

Answer 1

You could just use pure Python:

cell = "D4"
col = ord(cell[0]) - 65
row = int(cell[1:]) - 1

This uses the ord function which takes a character and returns its ASCII code. In ASCII the letter A is 65, B is 66 and so on.