xlsxwriter: How to insert a new row

Question

Using xlsxwriter, how do I insert a new row to an Excel worksheet? For instance, there is an existing data table at the cell range A1:G10 of the Excel worksheet, and I want to insert a row (A:A) to give it some space for the title of the report.

import xlsxwriter

# Create a workbook and add a worksheet.
workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('Expenses01.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet.insert_row(1)  # This method doesn't exist

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is not something xlsxwriter can do.

openpyxl is a good alternative to xlsxwriter , and if you are starting a new project do not use xlsxwriter .

Currently openpyxl can not insert rows, but here is an extension class for openpyxl that can.

openpyxl also allows reading of excel documents, which xlsxwriter does not.

Answer 2

By using openpyxl you can insert iew rows and columns

import openpyxl

file = "xyz.xlsx"
#loading XL sheet bassed on file name provided by user
book = openpyxl.load_workbook(file)
#opening sheet whose index no is 0
sheet = book.worksheets[0]

#insert_rows(idx, amount=1) Insert row or rows before row==idx, amount will be no of 
#rows you want to add and it's optional
sheet.insert_rows(13)

Hope this helps

Answer 3

December 2021, this is still not a possibility. You can get around this by doing some planning, and then writing your dataframe starting on different row. Building on the example from the xlsxwriter documentation :

df = pd.DataFrame({'Data': [10, 20, 30, 20, 15, 30, 45]})
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('my_excel_spreadsheet.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')
with writer as writer:
    df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet1', startrow = 4) # <<< notice the startrow here

And then, you can write to the earlier rows as mentioned in other comments:

workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['Sheet1']
worksheet.write(row, 0, 'Some Text') # <<< Then you can write to a different row

Not quite the insert() method we want, but better than nothing.

I have found that the planning involved in this process is not really ever something I can get around, even if I didn't have this problem. When I reach the stage where I am taking my data to excel, I have to do a little 'by hand' work in order to make the excel sheet pretty enough for human consumption, which is the whole point of moving things to excel. So, I don't look at the need to pre-plan my start rows as too much out of my way.

Answer 4

You can try this

import xlsxwriter

wb = Workbook("name.xlsx")
ws = wb.add_worksheet("sheetname")

# Write a blank cell
ws.write_blank(0, 0, None, cell_format)
ws.write_blank('A2', None, cell_format)

Answer 5

you should use write

read this: set_column(first_col, last_col, width, cell_format, options)

for example:

import xlsxwriter
workbook =xlsxwriter.Workbook('xD.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet.write(row, col,     'First Name')
workbook.close()

Answer 6

I am very much unhappy with the answers. The library xlxsWriter tends to perform most of the operations easily. To add a row in the existing worksheet , you can

    wb.write_row(rowNumber,columnNumber,listToAdd)