Python convert (read & save) excel xlsx to xls

Question

How can I convert an existing xlsx Excel file into xls while retaining my Excel file formatting? I use Anaconda Python 3, so I\'m not sure I can us

Answer 1

You can try to use openpyxl, and install it by conda install openpyxl and it should work with python3.5* Then the following code might work

import openpyxl as xl
wb = xl.load_workbook("yourfile.xlsx")
wb.save("file.xls")

You can learn more from openpyxl documentation, https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/default/

Enjoy !