Removing gridlines from excel using python (openpyxl)

Question

I'm trying to remove gridlines from excel worksheet which I created using openpyxl, and it's not working. I'm doing this:

wb = Workbook()   
ws = wb.get_active_sheet()
ws.show_gridlines = False
print ws.show_gridlines
wb.save('file.xlsx')

The that code prints the 'False', yet the saved file shows gridlines.

Answer 1

There is a relevant issue in openpyxl issue tracker. Plus, according to the source code show_gridlines is just a worksheet class property that has no affect at all. Just watch the issue to get any update on it.

As an alternative solution, try the new and awesome xlsxwriter module. It has an ability to hide grid lines on a worksheet (see docs). Here's an example:

from xlsxwriter.workbook import Workbook

workbook = Workbook('hello_world.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

worksheet.write('A1', 'Hello world')
worksheet.hide_gridlines(2)

workbook.close()