Copy An Excel table in a worksheet with styling to an msg file using python

Question

I have an Excel worksheet with a table that I want to copy into an msg file with the styling.

I know how to do the msg part:

import win32com.client as win32

def read_excel_into_msg(excel_file,msg_file):

    excel_table = ''

    outlook = win32.Dispatch('Outlook.Application').GetNamespace("MAPI")
    msg = outlook.OpenSharedItem(msg_file)
    msg.HTMLBody = excel_table
    msg.SaveAs(msg_file)

How can I get the excel table from a worksheet in the excel file to attach it to the msg body?

• I have tried:

excel_table = pandas.read_excel(excel_file,sheetname,header=n,usecols=cols)
excel_table = excel_table.to_html()

But it copied the plain table without the styling (the header and footer colors)

Answer 1

Use Pillow Library Imaging Library, copy range, save it then add it to outlook html body

Example, I'm using pywin32

import os
import win32com.client
from PIL import ImageGrab


workbook_path = r"D:\Temp\test.xlsx"

excel = win32com.client.DispatchEx('Excel.Application')
excel.Visible = True
workbook = excel.Workbooks.Open(Filename=workbook_path)
sheet = workbook.Sheets["sheet1"]
copy_range = sheet.Range("A1:C6").CopyPicture(Appearance=1, Format=2)

ImageGrab.grabclipboard().save("copy_range.png")
image_path = os.getcwd() + "\\copy_range.png"

Outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
mail = Outlook.CreateItem(0)
mail.To = '0m3r@Email.com'
mail.Subject = 'Message subject'
html_body = """<div><img src={}></img></div>"""
mail.HTMLBody = html_body.format(image_path)

mail.Display()