How to read a long Excel file using openpyxl?

Question

I am trying to print out the number of duplicates per cell in a column. For example:

 Jan-06-12  = 6
 Fen-06-12  = 10

? No idea how to do that..all I did was print out the whole column onto IDLE.

wb = load_workbook(filename = r'GenieSales.xlsx', use_iterators = True)
count = 0
ws = wb.get_sheet_by_name(name = 'Sheet1')
for column in ws.iter_rows(range_string =('I2:I51509')): # it brings a new method: iter_rows()
    for cell in column:
        print cell.internal_value


#print sheet_ranges['I2'].value # D18
#if sheet_ranges['I'].value == 'Jan-06-12':
#    print '1'

Answer 1

cell.internal_value refers to the value stored by Excel. This is always either a string or a number. Dates are numbers based on a calendar with 1900-01-01 as the epoch. If you want to work with the values in Python just use the cell.value which will convert the Excel value to Python.