Error in install via tarball process

[david-teasdale]

i used:

tar -zxvf  XlsxWriter-0.6.3.tar.gz 
cd XlsxWriter-0.6.3
sudo python setup.py install

and this is what was displayed

running install
...
copying xlsxwriter/chartsheet.py -> build/lib/xlsxwriter
running build_scripts
creating build/scripts-2.4
copying and adjusting examples/vba_extract.py -> build/scripts-2.4
changing mode of build/scripts-2.4/vba_extract.py from 644 to 755
running install_lib
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xlsxwriter/chart_line.py to chart_line.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xlsxwriter/chart_line.py", line 8
    from . import chart
         ^
...

there are a few lines that include from . in the files ... what did i do wrong ?

[jmcnamara]

Hi David,

Thanks for the detailed report.

From your trace it looks like your version of Python is Python 2.4. The oldest version supported by XlsxWriter is Python 2.5 but I would recommend Python 2.7 or 3.4. Python 2.4 is 10 years old now.

Regards,

John

[david-teasdale]

Thank you

[jmcnamara]

@jmcnamara TODO. Add Python version check and warning to setup.py in next release.

[jmcnamara]

I've added a Python version check and warning to setup.py in version 0.6.4. Hopefully that will make it clearer in the future.

[david-teasdale]

John,

Is XlsWriter set up to convert csv files to XLSX ?

On line I got the impression that it could but I am not seeing it in the docs?

David Teasdale

[david-teasdale]

Btw the upgraded to 2.5.6 worked

[jmcnamara]

Is XlsWriter set up to convert csv files to XLSX

There isn't an example of converting CSV to XLSX in the distro but it should just be a matter of reading the CSV data with the standard Python module csv.py and then writing it with XlsxWriter.

Note, any data that you read with csv.py will be in string format so you may want to use the strings_to_numbers option in the constructor.