Copying value of cell (X,Y) to cell (A,B) in same sheet of an Excel file using Python

Question

I am using the modules xlwd , xlwt and xlutil to do some Excel manipulations in Python. I am not able to figure out how to copy the value of cell (X,Y) to cell (A,B) in the same sheet of an Excel file in Python. Could someone let me know how to do that?

Answer 1

import xlrd
import xlwt
import xlutils
from xlutils.copy import copy 

r_book = xlrd.open_workbook(fname)
w_book = xlutils.copy.copy(r_book)
r_sheet = r_book.sheets()[0] # Taking the first sheet
w_sheet = w_book.get_sheet(0)

x_y_value = r_sheet.cell(X, Y).value
w_sheet.write(A, B, x_y_value)
w_book.save(fname)

Answer 2

Work on 2 cells among tens of thousands...quite meager. Normally,one should present an iteration over rows x columns.