t for excel pasting into new cells
Question:
Basic question
I want to paste large lists into excel however they all paste into the same cell how can I get them to paste into different cells. As an example the website https://www.doogal.co.uk/BatchGeocoding.php with the settings:
Tabs(for direct pasting into Excel) on
input addresses off
UK easting and northing off
with the view text
This allows the numbers to be put into different cells. How can I recreate this in python so I can copy the output and paste into the excel sheet. I have tried putting 4 spaces between the output and adding t between them. e.g 52.660869 1.26202 and 52.660869 t 1.26202 but they paste into the same cell.
I want this output to directly paste into excel 52.522229, -1.448947, ‘vZR6L’, ‘GTS’, ‘Owner’, ‘london’, ‘0’, ‘x’, Like the website does
I have tried
52.522229 -1.448947 vZR6L GTS Owner london 0 x
52.522229 t -1.448947 t vZR6L t GTS t Owner t london t 0 t x
52.522229t-1.448947tvZR6LtGTStOwnertlondont0tx
Answers:
I’ve done some research and as far as I can tell it is not possible to achieve what you want from a command line. The problem is even though you are specifying t in your code, the command line is outputting tabs as spaces.
>>>my_string = "THIStIStAtTEST"
>>> print(my_string)
THIS....IS......A.......TEST
Where in this example .‘s are spaces. Excel cannot parse this.
Option 1
I am assuming you are on windows. If so you could pipe the output into the Windows clip program.
>>>import os
>>>my_string = "THIStIStAtTEST"
>>>os.system("echo {} | clip".format(my_string))
0
This will copy the string to your clipboard. In my testing this works: I don’t know how well it will for you.
For other operating systems see: Pipe to/from the clipboard
Option 2
Alternatively you could write the output to a file, where the TAB characters will actually be saved:
with open("results.txt") as f:
f.write(my_string)
But at this point, you might as well comma separate the values and save it as a .csv:
my_string = "THIS, IS, A, TEST"
with open("results.csv") as f:
f.write(my_string)
Basic question
I want to paste large lists into excel however they all paste into the same cell how can I get them to paste into different cells. As an example the website https://www.doogal.co.uk/BatchGeocoding.php with the settings:
Tabs(for direct pasting into Excel) on
input addresses off
UK easting and northing off
with the view text
This allows the numbers to be put into different cells. How can I recreate this in python so I can copy the output and paste into the excel sheet. I have tried putting 4 spaces between the output and adding t between them. e.g 52.660869 1.26202 and 52.660869 t 1.26202 but they paste into the same cell.
I want this output to directly paste into excel 52.522229, -1.448947, ‘vZR6L’, ‘GTS’, ‘Owner’, ‘london’, ‘0’, ‘x’, Like the website does
I have tried
52.522229 -1.448947 vZR6L GTS Owner london 0 x
52.522229 t -1.448947 t vZR6L t GTS t Owner t london t 0 t x
52.522229t-1.448947tvZR6LtGTStOwnertlondont0tx
I’ve done some research and as far as I can tell it is not possible to achieve what you want from a command line. The problem is even though you are specifying t in your code, the command line is outputting tabs as spaces.
>>>my_string = "THIStIStAtTEST"
>>> print(my_string)
THIS....IS......A.......TEST
Where in this example .‘s are spaces. Excel cannot parse this.
Option 1
I am assuming you are on windows. If so you could pipe the output into the Windows clip program.
>>>import os
>>>my_string = "THIStIStAtTEST"
>>>os.system("echo {} | clip".format(my_string))
0
This will copy the string to your clipboard. In my testing this works: I don’t know how well it will for you.
For other operating systems see: Pipe to/from the clipboard
Option 2
Alternatively you could write the output to a file, where the TAB characters will actually be saved:
with open("results.txt") as f:
f.write(my_string)
But at this point, you might as well comma separate the values and save it as a .csv:
my_string = "THIS, IS, A, TEST"
with open("results.csv") as f:
f.write(my_string)