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Sometimes a database is really not necessary. Why not try a simple excel sheet

Coded this in an hour; sips on coffee though 9:06:34 PM

I generated the excel workbook using a website called Mockaroo. Today’s task is to convert a basic excel sheet table into an HTML table. I broke the task into sub tasks which were then later translated into functions.

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  1. Convert Excel Table into one dimensional List containing dictionaries
  2. Convert List into HTML document
  3. Save HTML string into a file with “.html” extension
  4. Done

The Excel Sheet looked like this:

MOCK_DATA

The code generated an HTML table (using the style.css – see below) that looked like this:

The power of automation

The excel table data was extracted and converted into a simple table.

The files: excel style

This is the code

You could expand the code to make it more flexible like:

  • Getting the HTML file name from the command line
  • Create different tables based on different sheets in a workbook
  • Create different HTML files based on different workbook (in a given directory)
  • Convert HTML Table into Excel Sheet (well basically webscraping; using the python module: BeautifulSoup)

If you have any questions, write them in the comment section.

See you soon!

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