When excel files have invalid formulas/data, this can cause xlsx2csv to produce an error like the following below (traceback truncated to only include the xlsx2csv errors):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/shared/ceph/homes/khsu/data_warehouse/integration/penv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xlsx2csv.py", line 860, in handleCharData
self.data = ("%f" % (float(self.data))).rstrip('0').rstrip('.')
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '#N/A'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/shared/ceph/homes/khsu/data_warehouse/tools/src/preproc/read.py", line 155, in read_excel
xlsx2csv.Xlsx2csv(infile).convert(outfile, sheetid=sheet_id)
File "/shared/ceph/homes/khsu/data_warehouse/integration/penv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xlsx2csv.py", line 235, in convert
self._convert(sheetid, outfile)
File "/shared/ceph/homes/khsu/data_warehouse/integration/penv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xlsx2csv.py", line 353, in _convert
sheet.to_csv(writer)
File "/shared/ceph/homes/khsu/data_warehouse/integration/penv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xlsx2csv.py", line 782, in to_csv
self.parser.ParseFile(self.filehandle)
File "/home/ebyrne/rpmbuild/BUILD/Python-3.7.4/Modules/pyexpat.c", line 282, in CharacterData
File "/shared/ceph/homes/khsu/data_warehouse/integration/penv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xlsx2csv.py", line 874, in handleCharData
raise XlsxValueError("Error: potential invalid date format.")
xlsx2csv.XlsxValueError: Error: potential invalid date format.
This occurs with both #N/A and #VALUE!, or when excel files contain invalid formulas. Because xlsx2csv doesn't know how to handle these, this breaks the conversion. This PR aims to fix these issues by removing the faulty data instead of trying to force a conversion onto it when an invalid formula is encountered.
When excel files have invalid formulas/data, this can cause
xlsx2csv
to produce an error like the following below (traceback truncated to only include thexlsx2csv
errors):This occurs with both
#N/A
and#VALUE!
, or when excel files contain invalid formulas. Becausexlsx2csv
doesn't know how to handle these, this breaks the conversion. This PR aims to fix these issues by removing the faulty data instead of trying to force a conversion onto it when an invalid formula is encountered.