Convert text files to excel files using python

Question

I am working on INFORMIX 4GL programs. That programs produce output text files.This is an example of the output:

Lot No|Purchaser name|Billing|Payment|Deposit|Balance|                
J1006|JAUHARI BIN HAMIDI|5285.05|4923.25|0.00|361.80|                 
J1007|LEE, CHIA-JUI AKA LEE, ANDREW J. R.|5366.15|5313.70|0.00|52.45| 
J1008|NAZRIN ANEEZA BINTI NAZARUDDIN|5669.55|5365.30|0.00|304.25|     
J1009|YAZID LUTFI BIN AHMAD LUTFI|3180.05|3022.30|0.00|157.75|  

This text files can manually convert to excel files.But, I wanna ask, is there any script that I can use to convert .txt files to .xls files ?

Hi all,now I'm already can convert text files to excell file by python using script that was given from user named Rami Helmy.A big thanks for him.But now,That script will produce more than one excell files depends on the number of '|' from the text files.Beside that,That script also can only convert one text files.I a going to convert all text files without state the name of text files.Therefore,I am looking such a way on how to this script going to:

• output only one excell file
• convert all .txt files from the directory that was given from user.
• output excell's file name are automaticly copied from the file name of text files.

I am new in python,hopefully someone can help me to solve my problems.Thank You..

done all the task,but there was some problem..the column that had green mark is format as textfile,so I can't make any calculation on that column.That column need to convert to number format.other from that, output excell files contains an "square" symbol like this:

then, how to make the green mark column format as number when convert file? and how can I ensure that there is no square symbol like that? Please help,thank you...

That strange square symbol are already gone but that green mark are still exist.

Hi all. I had one question to ask, I already got script that was given by RamiHelmi, but the extension file name will produce file such as:

tester.txt --> tester.txt.xls

therefore,how can i remove the '.txt. on the output files so that it will only produce "tester.xls" files extension.Hopefully,someone can help solve my problem..thank you

Answer 1

To automate that, you can use that python script described here:

Automate conversion txt to xls

Here is an updated version of the python script that will convert all the text files having the format that you described in a given directory to XLS files and save them in the same directory:

# mypath should be the complete path for the directory containing the input text files
mypath = raw_input("Please enter the directory path for the input files: ")

from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join
textfiles = [ join(mypath,f) for f in listdir(mypath) if isfile(join(mypath,f)) and '.txt' in  f]

def is_number(s):
    try:
        float(s)
        return True
    except ValueError:
        return False        

import xlwt
import xlrd

style = xlwt.XFStyle()
style.num_format_str = '#,###0.00'  

for textfile in textfiles:
    f = open(textfile, 'r+')
    row_list = []
    for row in f:
        row_list.append(row.split('|'))
    column_list = zip(*row_list)
    workbook = xlwt.Workbook()
    worksheet = workbook.add_sheet('Sheet1')
    i = 0
    for column in column_list:
        for item in range(len(column)):
            value = column[item].strip()
            if is_number(value):
                worksheet.write(item, i, float(value), style=style)
            else:
                worksheet.write(item, i, value)
        i+=1
    workbook.save(textfile.replace('.txt', '.xls'))

EDIT

The script above will get a list of all the text files in the given directory specified in mypath variable and then convert each text file to an XLS file named generated_xls0.xls then the next file will be named generated_xls1.xls etc...

EDIT

strip the string before writing it to the XLS file

EDIT

modified the script to handle the formatting of numbers