Goal of the script is to take the data from an excel file that is generated daily from a cron job & append that data to the bottom of a 'master' excel file.
Here is where I am right now:
# Find the most recent excel file created by the cron job & open it.
localtime = time.localtime(time.time())
yy = localtime.tm_year
mm = localtime.tm_mon
dd = localtime.tm_mday
file_name = 'daily_' + str(yy) + '_' + str(mm) + '_' + str(dd-1) + '.xls'
file_loc = '/Users/' + file_name
new_sheet = open_workbook(file_loc, on_demand=True).sheet_by_index(0)
# Grab all the data from the recent cron job file starting at row 2 to avoid
# including headers.
for row in range(1, new_sheet.nrows):
values = []
for col in range(new_sheet.ncols):
values.append(new_sheet.cell(row,col).value)
"""
The above loop structures the list 'values[]' in a way that the print
statement of value looks like the below output; which matches the formatting of
master_file.xlsx:
2341511 Sports 12112 Dog 324.92
71611 Other 18192 Cat 128.17
...
"""
# Find the excel master file & open it.
sheet = open_workbook('master_file.xlsx').sheet_by_index(0)
# Find the first row that is empty.
new_row = sheet.nrows + 1
# Append the values[] list to the master file starting at row(new_row) and save
# the db file.
for row_num, row in enumerate(values, new_row):
for col_num, col in enumerate(row):
sheet.row(row_num).write(col_num, col)
sheet.save('master_file.xlsx')
My traceback error is:
File "daily.py", line 45, in <module>
sheet.row(row_num).write(col_num, col)
File "/Users/code/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlrd/sheet.py", line 462, in row
for colx in xrange(len(self._cell_values[rowx]))
IndexError: list index out of range
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Intuition from the code is that you're not actually adding a row to the worksheet prior to iterating.
xlrd doesn't look like it actually has methods to modify an existing worksheet. Check out this SO post which might help...