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what is shortest way to export what's in a tree view to an excel file


I have a treeView witch has a lot of data I want to export this data to excel file. I want the simplest way to do this.

I have an idea witch is to convert whats in tree view to data frame then save the data frame as excel file. but I don't know if it's good idea or not ?!

from tkinter import filedialog
import pandas as pd
from collections import defaultdict

file = filedialog.asksaveasfilename(title="Select file","nameOfFile.xlsx",filetypes=[("Excel file", "*.xlsx")])
if file:
    ids=tree.get_children()
    dict = defaultdict(list)
    for id in ids:
        date=dt.datetime.strptime(tree.set(id, "#13"), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
        dateChosed=dt.datetime.strptime(monthToExport.get(), "%B-%Y")
        if (date.year == dateChosed.year) and (date.month == dateChosed.month):
            dict["1"].append(tree.item(id)["text"])
            dict["2"].append(tree.item(id)["values"][0])

    dict = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(dict)
    try:
        dict.to_excel(file, engine='xlsxwriter',index= False)
    except:
        print("Close the file than retry")
else:
    print("You did not save the file")

Solution

  • from tkinter import filedialog
    import pandas as pd
    from collections import defaultdict
    
    file = filedialog.asksaveasfilename(title="Select file","nameOfFile.xlsx",filetypes[("Excel file", "*.xlsx")])
    if file:
        ids=tree.get_children()
        dict = defaultdict(list)
        for id in ids:
            date=dt.datetime.strptime(tree.set(id, "#13"), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
            dateChosed=dt.datetime.strptime(monthToExport.get(), "%B-%Y")
            if (date.year == dateChosed.year) and (date.month == dateChosed.month):
                dict["1"].append(tree.item(id)["text"])
                dict["2"].append(tree.item(id)["values"][0])
    
        dict = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(dict)
        try:
           dict.to_excel(file, engine='xlsxwriter',index= False)
        except:
           print("Close the file than retry")
    else:
    print("You did not save the file")