* Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files
@ 2020-09-12 11:50 swedebugia
2020-09-13 7:40 ` swedebugia
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Bastien
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: swedebugia @ 2020-09-12 11:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi
Thanks for a making this fantastic program!
I think I found a bug.
When trying to import a xslx table into org-mode I get a lot of binary
data instead of a table back.
I would rather either get an error saying it is not supported yet or an
org-table.
Recoll supports xlsx files it seems, so it should be possible
with python 3 at least to make this work also in org-mode. See
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/features.html
I found this in Arch:
$ pacman -Ss xlsx
community/python-openpyxl 3.0.5-1
A Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files
Other ones written in python:
https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv (not that active)
https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit (active)
Also gnumeric can convert it:
The Gnumeric spreadsheet application comes with a command line utility
called ssconvert that can convert between a variety of spreadsheet
formats:
$ ssconvert Book1.xlsx newfile.csv
Unfortunately it is only available with the gnumeric GUI currently
which is ~14MB bloat.
See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10557360/ddg#10580741
Source here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric (active)
Cheers
swedebugia
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2020-09-12 11:50 Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files swedebugia
@ 2020-09-13 7:40 ` swedebugia
2020-09-13 8:13 ` swedebugia
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Bastien
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: swedebugia @ 2020-09-13 7:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:50:43 +0200
swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for a making this fantastic program!
>
> I think I found a bug.
>
> When trying to import a xslx table into org-mode I get a lot of binary
> data instead of a table back.
>
> I would rather either get an error saying it is not supported yet or
> an org-table.
>
> Recoll supports xlsx files it seems, so it should be possible
> with python 3 at least to make this work also in org-mode. See
> https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/features.html
>
> I found this in Arch:
> $ pacman -Ss xlsx
> community/python-openpyxl 3.0.5-1
> A Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files
>
> Other ones written in python:
> https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv (not that active)
> https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit (active)
>
> Also gnumeric can convert it:
> The Gnumeric spreadsheet application comes with a command line utility
> called ssconvert that can convert between a variety of spreadsheet
> formats:
>
> $ ssconvert Book1.xlsx newfile.csv
> Unfortunately it is only available with the gnumeric GUI currently
> which is ~14MB bloat.
> See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10557360/ddg#10580741
> Source here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric (active)
>
> Cheers
> swedebugia
>
I also found this nice and small rust program that works well:
https://github.com/zitsen/xlsx2csv.rs
It is surprisingly large though:
8.7M Sep 12 16:53 .cargo/bin/xlsx2csv
Which is way more than ssconvert, but on the other hand it does not
require any gnome dependencies or GUI stuff:
38K Sep 5 16:21 /usr/bin/ssconvert
cheers
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* Re: Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files
2020-09-13 7:40 ` swedebugia
@ 2020-09-13 8:13 ` swedebugia
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: swedebugia @ 2020-09-13 8:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 09:40:03 +0200
swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> I also found this nice and small rust program that works well:
> https://github.com/zitsen/xlsx2csv.rs
> It is surprisingly large though:
> 8.7M Sep 12 16:53 .cargo/bin/xlsx2csv
> Which is way more than ssconvert, but on the other hand it does not
> require any gnome dependencies or GUI stuff:
> 38K Sep 5 16:21 /usr/bin/ssconvert
>
> cheers
>
Just for fun I compared the speed, and the found that ssconvert is
slower by a factor of 10 on a ~4500 line spreadsheet.
$ time xlsx2csv test.xlsx
* Preparing write to ./Tabelle1.csv
** sheet range size is (4770, 11)
** Starting writing
** Done with sheet
`Tabelle1` real 0m0.565s
user 0m0.537s
sys 0m0.021s
$ time ssconvert
test.xlsx test.csv
real 0m4.249s
user 0m4.186s
sys 0m0.061s
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* Re: Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files
2020-09-12 11:50 Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files swedebugia
2020-09-13 7:40 ` swedebugia
@ 2020-09-13 17:15 ` Bastien
2020-09-14 6:27 ` swedebugia
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2020-09-13 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: swedebugia; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi,
swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
> When trying to import a xslx table into org-mode I get a lot of binary
> data instead of a table back.
Indeed! Let's have Org throw an error in such cases, I made this
change in master as 9c31cba00.
Thanks,
--
Bastien
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* Re: Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Bastien
@ 2020-09-14 6:27 ` swedebugia
2020-09-14 12:39 ` Bastien
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: swedebugia @ 2020-09-14 6:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Den Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:15:58 +0200
skrev Re: Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files:
> Hi,
>
> swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
>
> > When trying to import a xslx table into org-mode I get a lot of
> > binary data instead of a table back.
>
> Indeed! Let's have Org throw an error in such cases, I made this
> change in master as 9c31cba00.
>
> Thanks,
>
Thank you!
Do you have any idea how I can setup org-mode to use a convert
tool before trying to import?
cheers
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