is it possible to insert a excel formula value not formula

user12659741 :

i am trying to insert a value using excel formula which is happening successfully but i want to save the value not formula ,here is the piece of code i am trying so far.

print("Adding formula to " + filename)         


for i,cellObj in enumerate(sheet_formula['P'],1):
        cellObj.value='=IF(AND(OR(A{0}="g_m",A{0}="s_m"),ISNUMBER(SEARCH("A", E{0}))), "A", VLOOKUP(A{0},\'i ma\'!A:B, 2, FALSE))'.format(i)
        sheet_formula.cell(row=1, column=16).value = 'C'

this piece of is able to insert formula but i want to save the value not formula

JvdV :

"The basic reasons for abandoning openpyxl are: (1) XLS file processing is not supported; (2) the bug of testing current version style preservation is not solved; If you encounter the above two problems, give up openpyxl and embrace xlwings. There is no way out." Grabbed from here.

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"It's possible using xlwings which uses pywin32 objects to interact with Excel, rather than just reading/writing xlsx or csv documents like openpyxl and pandas. This way, Excel actually executes the formula, and xlwings grabs the result." Grabbed from here.

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So while it's not possible (so it seems) using just Openpyxl, or any other library that does not support xls file processing, as a Python library, it is possible using xlwings. I have added a simple sample below. I simply opened a fresh workbook, added a formula and transformed the formula to it's calculated value.

import xlwings as xw
app = xw.App(visible=False, add_book=False)
wb = app.books.add()
ws = wb.sheets.active
ws['A1'].value = '=3+5'
ws['A1'].value = ws['A1'].value
wb.save(r'C:\Users\...\test.xlsx')
wb.close()
app.quit()
exit()

Hopefully the above helps. Please keep in mind; I'm a Python beginner!

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For those who are interested, some good explaination about the difference between Openpyxl and xlWings can be found here. And a somewhat similar problem with some answers can be found here