Python XlsxWriter Environment Setup

Installing XlsxWriter Using PIP

The easiest and recommended way to install XlsxWriter is using the PIP installer. Use the following command to install XlsxWriter (preferably in a virtual environment).

pip3 install xlsxwriter

Installing from a Tarball

Another option is to install XlsxWriter from its source code, hosted at https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter/

Download the latest source code archive and install the library using the following commands:

$ curl -O -L http://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter/archive/main.tar.gz

$ tar zxvf main.tar.gz
$ cd XlsxWriter-main/
$ setup.py install

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Cloning from GitHub

You can also clone the GitHub repository and install from there.

$ git clone https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter.git

$ cd XlsxWriter
$python setup.py install

To confirm that XlsxWriter is installed correctly, you can check its version from the Python prompt –

>>> import xlsxwriter
>>> xlsxwriter.__version__
'3.0.2'