Excel Tutorial

Excel is a very popular tabular data format that usually has xlsx (newer) and xls (older) file extensions. Frictionless supports Excel files extensively.

CLI

pip install frictionless[excel]

pip install 'frictionless[excel]' # for zsh shell

Reading Data

You can read this format using Package/Resource, for example:

python

from pprint import pprint

from frictionless import Resource

resource = Resource(path='data/table.xlsx')

pprint(resource.read_rows())

[{'id': 1, 'name': 'english'}, {'id': 2, 'name': '中国人'}]

Writing Data

The same is actual for writing:

python

from frictionless import Resource

source = Resource(data=[['id', 'name'], [1, 'english'], [2, 'german']])

target = source.write('table.xlsx')

print(target)

print(target.to_view())

{'path': 'table.xlsx'}

+----+-----------+

| id | name |

+====+===========+

| 1 | 'english' |

+----+-----------+

| 2 | 'german' |

+----+-----------+

Configuring Data

There is a dialect to configure how Frictionless read and write files in this format. For example:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

from frictionless.plugins.excel import ExcelDialect

resource = Resource(data=[['id', 'name'], [1, 'english'], [2, 'german']])

resource.write('tmp/table.xlsx', dialect=ExcelDialect(sheet='My Table'))

References:

• Excel Dialect