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Create ODS File in Python

High-speed Python library for creating ODS file. Use our excel conversion API to develop high-level, platform independent software in Python.

Create ODS File Using Python

How to create ODS file? With Aspose.Cells for Python via NET library, you can easily create ODS file programmatically with a few lines of code. Aspose.Cells for Python is capable of building cross-platform applications with the ability to generate, modify, convert, render and print all Excel files. Python Excel API not only convert between spreadsheet formats, it can also render Excel files as images, PDF, HTML, ODS, CSV, SVG, JSON, WORD, PPT and more, thus making it a perfect choice to exchange documents in industry-standard formats.

How to Create ODS in Python

It is easy for the developers to create, load, modify and convert ODS files within running different reporting applications for data processing in just a few lines of code.

  1. Create Workbook class instance.
  2. Access the first worksheet of the workbook.
  3. Get the desired cell(s) of the worksheet and input the value into the cell(s).
  4. Use Save method to save the workbook as ODS file.
 

Sample code shows how to create ODS file in Python.


from aspose import pycore
from aspose.cells import Workbook, SaveFormat, FileFormatType

# Create Workbook object.
workbook = Workbook()

# Access the first worksheet of the workbook.
worksheet = workbook.worksheets[0]

# Get the desired cell(s) of the worksheet and input the value into the cell(s).
worksheet.cells.get("A1").put_value("ColumnA")
worksheet.cells.get("B1").put_value("ColumnB")
worksheet.cells.get("A2").put_value("ValueA")
worksheet.cells.get("B2").put_value("ValueB")

# Save the workbook as ODS file.
workbook.save("output.ods")
 

Python library to create ODS file

We host our Python packages in PyPi repositories.

Install Aspose.Cells for Python from pypi, use command as: $ pip install aspose-cells-python.

And you can also follow the step-by-step instructions on how to install “Aspose.Cells for Python via .NET” to your developer environment.

System Requirements

Aspose.Cells for Python is platform-independent API and can be used on any platform (Windows, Linux), just make sure that system have Python 3.7 or higher.

ODS What is ODS File Format?

Files with .ods extension stand for OpenDocument Spreadsheet Document format that are editable by user. Data is stored inside ODF file into rows and columns. It is XML-based format and is one of the several subtypes in the Open Document Formats (ODF) family. The format is specified as part of the ODF 1.2 specifications published and maintained by OASIS. A number of applications on Windows as well as other operating systems can open ODS files for editing and manipulation including Microsoft Excel, NeoOffice and LibreOffice. ODS files can also be converted into other spreadsheet formats as well like XLS, XLSX and others by different applications.

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Other Supported Spreadsheet Generation

You can also create other Microsoft Excel formats including few listed below.

XLS (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (Legacy))
XLSX (Open XML Workbook)
XLSB (Excel Binary Workbook)
XLSM (Macro-enabled Spreadsheet)
XLT (Excel 97 - 2003 Template)
XLTX (Excel Template)
XLTM (Excel Macro-Enabled Template)
CSV (Comma Separated Values)
TSV (Tab Separated Values)
ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet)
PDF (Portable Document Format)
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)