How make a protect from editing excel file?

Question

I create a excel file from a dataframe:

#writer = pd.ExcelWriter('test_1.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')    
#uniq_pros.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet1')
#writer.save()

how can make it protect from editing this excell file? i want be only for view from users...

Answer 1

You can do that as follows using the XlsxWriter worksheet protect() method:

import pandas as pd


# Create a Pandas dataframe from some data.
df = pd.DataFrame({'Data': [10, 20, 30, 20, 15, 30, 45]})

# Create a Pandas Excel writer using XlsxWriter as the engine.
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('test_1.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')

# Convert the dataframe to an XlsxWriter Excel object.
df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet1')

# Get the xlsxwriter workbook and worksheet objects.
workbook  = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['Sheet1']

# Set protection for the worksheet.
worksheet.protect()

# Close the Pandas Excel writer and output the Excel file.
writer.save()

Output:

You can also add a password if required.