xlsxwriter set_column to hide doesn't work

Question

I'm trying to hide a column with XlsxWriter but it seems not working. The function returns 0 that means that the column has been hided with success.

I'm using column with number and not with letter.

workbook.get_worksheet_by_name('SENSORS').set_column(5,5, None, None, {'hidden': 1})

However, the columns don't be hide. Why the statement doesn't work?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It should work. Here is a simple example based on your snippet:

import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('test.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet('SENSORS')

workbook.get_worksheet_by_name('SENSORS').set_column(5, 5, None, None, {'hidden': 1})

for col_num in range(8):
    worksheet.write(0, col_num, col_num)

workbook.close()

Output, note that column 5 is hidden.