pyexcel-handsontable - Let you focus on data, instead of file formats

Author:C.W.
Source code:http://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-handsontable.git
Issues:http://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-handsontable/issues
License:New BSD License
Development:0.0.1
Released:0.0.1
Generated:Jun 19, 2017

Introduction

pyexcel-handsontable is a rendering plugin to pyexcel and renders pyexcel.Sheet and pyexcel.Book into a handsontable in your web page. As long as you have a browser, you could view the data. However, please note that this library does not aim to replace any current excel softwares, such as Micorsoft Office. But it aims to extends the capability of a Python user/developer in viewing plain data.

Main features:

  1. transform your excel sheets into excel alike html file.
  2. embed your excel sheets into your web page
https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-handsontable/blob/master/demo/screenshot.png

Here is one liner to use it with pyexcel:

import pyexcel as p

p.save_as(file_name='your.xls', dest_file_name='your.handsontable.html')

Please remember to give this file suffix always: handsontable.html. It is because handsontable.html triggers this plugin in pyexcel.

Known constraints

Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

Installation

You can install it via pip:

$ pip install pyexcel-handsontable

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-handsontable.git
$ cd pyexcel-handsontable
$ python setup.py install

Rendering Options

You can pass the following options to pyexcel.Sheet.save_as() and pyexcel.Book.save_as(). The same options are applicable to pyexcel’s signature functions, but please remember to add ‘dest_‘ prefix.

js_url The default url for handsontable javascript file points to cdnjs version 0.31.0. You can replace it with your custom url

css_url The default url for handsontable style sheet points to cdnjs version 0.31.0. You can replace it with your custom url

embed If it is set true, the resulting html will only contain a portion of HTML without the HTML header. And it is expected that you, as the developer to provide the necessary HTML header in your web page.

What’s more, you could apply all handsontable’s options to the rendering too. for example, ‘readOnly’ was set to True as default in this library. In the demo, ‘readOnly’ was overridden as False.

Embed Setup

Please copy the hightlighted lines into the head section of each of your web pages:

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 <html><head>
 ...
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handsontable/0.31.0/handsontable.full.min.css">
 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handsontable/0.31.0/handsontable.full.min.js"></script>
 <style>
 body{font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:2 0 0 0}.tab{margin-bottom:0 !important;text-align:center;list-style:none;padding:0 0 0 10px;line-height:24px;height:26px;overflow:hidden;font-size:12px;font-family:verdana;position:relative;margin:0}.tab li{margin-left:0 !important;float:left;height:24px;border:1px solid #aaa;background:#d1d1d1;background:linear-gradient(top, #ececec 50%, #d1d1d1);display:inline-block;position:relative;z-index:0;border-top-left-radius:6px;border-top-right-radius:6px;box-shadow:0 3px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.4),inset 0 1px 0 #fff;text-shadow:0 1px #fff;margin:0 -5px;padding:0 20px}.tab li.active{background:#fff;color:#333;z-index:2}.tab li:before{left:-6px;border-width:0 1px 1px 0;box-shadow:2px 2px 0 #d1d1d1}.tab li:after{right:-6px;border-width:0 0 1px 1px;box-shadow:-2px 2px 0 #d1d1d1}.tab a{color:#555;text-decoration:none}.tab:before{position:absolute;content:" ";width:100%;bottom:0;left:0;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;z-index:1}.tabcontent{margin-top:-1px}
 </style>
 ...
 <body>
 ...

Then pass on embed=True to pyexcel signature functions. It is as simple as that.

Note

For latest handsontable releases, please visit cdnjs

License

New BSD License