eea / odfpy

API for OpenDocument in Python
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wishlist: addressing cells #64

Open chrysn opened 6 years ago

chrysn commented 6 years ago

as a novice user using odfpy to extract data from an .ods file, i found it hard to find cells, skipping over number-columns-repeated etc.

would it be an option to have a helper method on sheets (or other helper function) in the library that allows selecting cells by their coordinates?

chfw commented 6 years ago

For data extraction only and would like not to be concerned of number-columns-repeated, I would recommend using my libraries: pyexcel + pyexcel-ods(a wrapper for odfpy), where you still uses odfpy but you get random cell access and not to care about number-columns-repeated.

However, if you do care about styles, font, charts and/or styles, please ignore me and thank you for your attention.