I am trying to make a script. Script that would search trough .xls file and print out rows for which ones the conditions are true. I have no problem with that. I do, however have problem when I need to write that row in a file.
this is the code:
import xlrd
import string
dataFile = open('Napadaci.txt', 'w')
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('TBS_58_pos10_stars75_2014-02-09.xls')
worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_name('Sheet1')
num_rows = worksheet.nrows - 1
num_cells = worksheet.ncols - 1
curr_row = -1
b = 0
new_cell_value = ""
while curr_row < num_rows:
curr_row += 1
row = worksheet.row(curr_row)
curr_cell = 4
cell_value = worksheet.cell_value(curr_row, curr_cell)
if cell_value < 17.0:
curr_cell = 5
cell_value = worksheet.cell_value(curr_row, curr_cell)
if cell_value == 95.0:
curr_cell = 9
cell_value = worksheet.cell_value(curr_row, curr_cell)
if cell_value == "Tehnical" or cell_value == "Quick" or cell_value == "Head" or cell_value == "Unpredictable":
b += 1
dataFile.write(str(b)+'\n')
curr_cell = -1
while (curr_cell + 1) < num_cells:
curr_cell += 1
cell_value = worksheet.cell_value(curr_row, curr_cell)
new_cell_value=cell_value
if isinstance(cell_value, str):
new_cell_value = cell_value.encode('ascii','ignore')
dataFile.write(str(new_cell_value)+'\n')
dataFile.write(str('Trazim sljedeceg')+'\n'+'\n'+'\n'+'\n')
So, a bunch of ifs to make sure the row is exactly right.
But, when I try to run it, i get error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 10-11: ordinal not in range(128)
I googled and found out that is because in .xls file I have characters like this:šć etc.
I am going trough all cells one by one, and I figured that I only need to solve this in cells where I have strings, hence the very last if.
I am quite sure that the
new_cell_value = cell_value.encode('ascii','ignore')
line should fix it, but it does not happen. Please help, I don't know what am I doing wrong.
If you need any more extra information. I have Python 2.7.3 and I am running ubuntu 12.04
Edit:Oh and those characthers aren't very important for me, so I am in a position to lose them if needed.