I am new to Python. I need to write some data from my program to a spreadsheet. I've searched online and there seems to be many packages available (xlwt, XlsXcessive, openpyxl). Others suggest to write to a csv file (never used csv & don't really understand what it is).
The program is very simple. I have two lists (float) and three variables (strings). I don't know the lengths of the two lists and they probably won't be the same length.
I want the layout to be as in the picture below:
The pink column will have the values of the first list and the green column will have the values of the second list.
So what's the best way to do this? Thanks.
P.S. I am running Windows 7 but I won't necessarily have Office installed on the computers running this program.
EDIT
import xlwt
x=1
y=2
z=3
list1=[2.34,4.346,4.234]
book = xlwt.Workbook(encoding="utf-8")
sheet1 = book.add_sheet("Sheet 1")
sheet1.write(0, 0, "Display")
sheet1.write(1, 0, "Dominance")
sheet1.write(2, 0, "Test")
sheet1.write(0, 1, x)
sheet1.write(1, 1, y)
sheet1.write(2, 1, z)
sheet1.write(4, 0, "Stimulus Time")
sheet1.write(4, 1, "Reaction Time")
i=4
for n in list1:
i = i+1
sheet1.write(i, 0, n)
book.save("trial.xls")
import xlwt
def output(filename, sheet, list1, list2, x, y, z):
book = xlwt.Workbook()
sh = book.add_sheet(sheet)
variables = [x, y, z]
x_desc = 'Display'
y_desc = 'Dominance'
z_desc = 'Test'
desc = [x_desc, y_desc, z_desc]
col1_name = 'Stimulus Time'
col2_name = 'Reaction Time'
#You may need to group the variables together
#for n, (v_desc, v) in enumerate(zip(desc, variables)):
for n, v_desc, v in enumerate(zip(desc, variables)):
sh.write(n, 0, v_desc)
sh.write(n, 1, v)
n+=1
sh.write(n, 0, col1_name)
sh.write(n, 1, col2_name)
for m, e1 in enumerate(list1, n+1):
sh.write(m, 0, e1)
for m, e2 in enumerate(list2, n+1):
sh.write(m, 1, e2)
book.save(filename)
for more explanation: https://github.com/python-excel