Extracting values only from the value of excel row recived using xlrd -python

Question

This problem is specific wrt using xlrd package in python I got row of excel which is in form of list but each item is integer value; type:value this is not string. The row is save by;

import xlrd

book = xlrd.open_workbook('myfile.xls')

sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)

for rx in range(sh2.nrows):

  row = sh.row(rx)

so row saved has value;

row=[text:u'R', text:u'xyz', text:u'Y', text:u'abc', text:u'lmn', empty:'']

This is a list of int. I want the values extracted -

R

xyz

Y

abc

lmn

''

There has to be some method to convert it, but not sure which and how.

Now, I know I can get value just by;

cell_value = sh.cell_value(rowx=rx, colx=1)

but my program requires to collect rows first and then extract values from save row.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The row is a sequence of Cell instances, which have the attribute value.

for cell in row:
    cell_value = cell.value
    # etc

I am not sure why you want to do it this way - the reference to collecting rows first seems odd to me, given that you can get the rows directly from the worksheet.