Hi all, I am trying to figure out a way to read colors with xlrd, but I did not understand the formatting.py module. Basically, I want to sort rows that are red or green. My initial attempt discovered that >>>print cell text:u'test1.txt' (XF:22) text:u'test2.txt' (XF:15) text:u'test3.txt' (XF:15) text:u'test4.txt' (XF:15) text:u'test5.txt' (XF:23)
So, I thought that XF:22 represented my red highlighted row and XF:23 represented my green highlighted row. However, that was not always true. If one row is blank and I only highlighted one row, I got: >>>print cell text:u'test1.txt' (XF:22) text:u'test2.txt' (XF:22) text:u'test3.txt' (XF:22) text:u'test4.txt' (XF:22) text:u'test5.txt' (XF:22) empty:'' (XF:15) text:u'test6.txt' (XF:22) text:u'test7.txt' (XF:23) Now NoFill is XF:22! I am sure I am going about this the wrong way, but I just want to store filenames into a dictionary based on whether they are red or green. Any ideas would be much appreciated. My code is below. Best, Patrick filenames = {} filenames.setdefault('GREEN',[]) filenames.setdefault('RED',[]) book = xlrd.open_workbook("/home/pwaldo2/work/workbench/ Summary.xls",formatting_info=True) SumDoc = book.sheet_by_index(0) n=1 while n<SumDoc.nrows: cell = SumDoc.cell(n,5) print cell filename = str(cell)[7:-9] color = str(cell)[-3:-1] if color == '22': filenames['RED'].append(filename) n+=1 elif color == '23': filenames['GREEN'].append(filename) n+=1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list