pyExcelerator date format

Question

I have been using pyExcelerator library for a while, it works nicely. Now, I would like to be able to export python dates as Date format in the excel sheet. I cannot find out (I read the documentation) how to do. Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

Option 1:

Just convert string to datetime type you've got from parsing. Here I assume that you have fixed date format:

import csv
from datetime import datetime
date_object = datetime.strptime('Jun 1 2005  1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')

rows = ['foo', 'bar', date_object]

with open('export.csv', 'wb') as csv_file:
    writer = csv.writer(csv_file, delimiter=',', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
    writer.writerow(rows)

Option 2

Use xlwt module. Example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: windows-1251 -*-
# Copyright (C) 2005 Kiseliov Roman

from xlwt import *
from datetime import datetime

w = Workbook()
ws = w.add_sheet('Hey, Dude')

fmts = [
    'M/D/YY',
    'D-MMM-YY',
    'D-MMM',
    'MMM-YY',
    'h:mm AM/PM',
    'h:mm:ss AM/PM',
    'h:mm',
    'h:mm:ss',
    'M/D/YY h:mm',
    'mm:ss',
    '[h]:mm:ss',
    'mm:ss.0',
]

i = 0
for fmt in fmts:
    ws.write(i, 0, fmt)

    style = XFStyle()
    style.num_format_str = fmt

    ws.write(i, 4, datetime.now(), style)

    i += 1

w.save('dates.xls')

More examples: https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt/tree/master/xlwt/examples