How to get line number in excel sheet using python?

Question

I have an Excel sheet like this:

  A B C D E F G
1 0 0 0
2   0 0
3 0
4
5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 0 0   0

And every '0' represents some data values, I am reading the values and comparing them with my original data, when the data match fails it returns a message. What I want is to return the line number of excel sheet as well as the column number or particularly the CELL location. Please help me doing this!

Answer 1

Try this:

import xlrd
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('book.xls')
for sheet in workbook.sheets():
    for row in range(sheet.nrows):
        for column in range(sheet.ncols):
            print "row::::: ", row
            print "column:: ", column
            print "value::: ", sheet.cell(row,column).value

It will give you exact row, column numbers and cell value

Answer 2

Keep track of the column and row while iterating over the worksheet. An xlrd Cell does not keep track of where they 'live' in the sheet.