[Qgis-developer] Excel Export from QGIS attribute table

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi,

 It is a common requirement that users want to export a QGIS attribute 
 table to Excel/CSV/Spreadsheet. While CSV is probably easy, the other 
 two are probably more complex, but there are some good Python libraries 
 around. For my users, Excel is the most requested table export format.

 I wonder if this could be made into the core, as I think that most 
 other user want that as well. The idea is to have an export button for 
 the table, choose the format (CSV, Excel, Openoffice) and let the user 
 select if he wants all data export, or only filtered or selected rows.

 I guess it would be best to use Python for that purpose, as Python has 
 some good Excel libraries:

 * pyExcelerator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/ (Excel 
 97/2000/XP/2003)
 * xlrd und xlwt (reader/writer): http://www.python-excel.org (Excel 2.0 
 to 2007)
 * openpyxl: https://bitbucket.org/ericgazoni/openpyxl/wiki/Home (Excel 
 2007 and higher)

 Do any of you have experience with one of the above listed packages or 
 any other recommendations? How about OpenOffice writing?

 Goal: cross platform without the need to have MSOffice or OpenOffice 
 installed.

 Would this be best implemented in C++ or in Python?

 Who else would be interested in such functionality?

 Thanks,
 Andreas

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