How to Export Excel Cells into Text Files

How to Export Excel Cells into Text Files


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Description: At work, I had an employee who was avoiding a data task. He needed to Export a couple of columns into an Excel file. This is normally not that difficult, but he told me he needed help writing a script. He wanted every cell in the column to be exported into an individual text file. He started doing this manually (copy/paste) and realized this was going to take many hours. I think he had about 300+ files to create.

# import libraries
import pandas as pd
import sys

print('Python version ' + sys.version)
print('Pandas version ' + pd.__version__)        

Output:

Python version 3.11.7 
Pandas version 2.2.1        


Sample Excel File

Here are the contents of the Excel file I will use to show you how to solve it using Pandas.

ID 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5        

Let us read in the Excel file.

# import sample excel file
df = pd.read_excel('sample.xlsx')
df        

Let's verify the datatypes are correct by using info()

As shown below we can see the column named "ID" is of integer type.
df.info()        

Output:

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 5 entries, 0 to 4
Data columns (total 1 columns):
 #   Column  Non-Null Count  Dtype
---  ------  --------------  -----
 0   ID      5 non-null      int64
dtypes: int64(1)
memory usage: 172.0 bytes        

The goal of the loop below is to export every row in the DataFrame into an individual text file.

I normally only try to use Pandas methods, but the index of the DataFrame kept ending up in the text file and I only wanted the value of the row in each of the text files. This is why I am using plain Python to handle the file writing piece.

# loop through the df
for index, row in df.iterrows():
    # grab the value of the row
    value = row.values.item()

    # save the value into a text file
    with open(f'row_{index}.txt', 'w') as f:
        f.write(str(value))        


Summary:

The tutorial demonstrated how to export each cell in an Excel column into individual text files using Python's Pandas library. I provided you a step-by-step guide on importing an Excel file, verifying data types, and using a loop to write each cell value into a separate text file.


Key Takeaways:

  • Import Excel file into a Pandas DataFrame pd.read_excel("sample.xlsx")
  • Verify data types using df.info()
  • Use df.iterrows() to iterate through each row in the DataFrame
  • Use row.values.item() to extract the value of each row (excluding index)
  • Use Python's with open() function to write each value into a separate text file
  • Use f-strings to dynamically name text files f"row_{index}.txt"


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