Python SDK, download excel file

Viewed 3k times. I'm trying to use Python to download an Excel file to my local drive from Box. Using the boxsdk I was able to authenticate via OAuth2 and successfully get the file id on Box.

Improve this question. Clerin Clerin 96 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. You are most of the way there. What's left should be easier than what you've already done. Check out Python's open built-in function. Thanks John Y, that worked! I used the open function with the arguments 'wb' for mode and 1 for buffer. As long as I had already created a blank excel file in the local drive then it wrote the downloaded data into the excel sheet including separating it into different tabs.

Excel wasn't happy when I tried to open the excel file manually, but as long as I used the close function first then it was possible to open the excel tabs as dataframes in Python using pandas.

Thanks again! Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. StringIO s. Python functions can be exposed as worksheet functions UDFs , macros, menus and ribbon tool bars. Homepage Features Documentation Download.

Homepage Documentation GitHub Download. There is a Google Group dedicated to working with Excel files in Python, including the libraries listed above along with manipulating the Excel application via COM. The following companies can provide commercial software development and consultancy and are specialists in working with Excel files in Python:.

Working with Excel Files in Python This site contains pointers to the best information available about working with Excel files in the Python programming language. Reading and Writing Excel Files There are python packages available to work with Excel files that will run on any Python platform and that do not require either Windows or Excel to be used. They are fast, reliable and open source: openpyxl The recommended package for reading and writing Excel files ie:.

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