Openpyxl : need the max number of rows in a column that has data in Excel

Question

I need the last row in a particular column that contains data in Excel. In openpyxl sheet.max_row or max_column gets us the maximum row or column in the whole sheet. But what I want is for a particular column.

My scenario is where I have to get some values from database and append it to the end of a particular column in Excel sheet.

In this screenshot, if I want max_column containing data in column 'C', it should return 10:

In the above image if I want last cell containing data of column 'C', it should return 10

------------- Solution 1 --------------------

import pandas as pd

# lt is the dataframe containing the data to be loaded to excel file

for index,i in enumerate(lt):
   panda_xl_rd = pd.read_excel('file.xlsx',"sheet_Name") # Panda Dataframe
   max = len(panda_xl_rd.iloc[:,(col-1)].dropna())+2     ''' getting the 
                                                             row_num of 
                                                             last record in 
                                                             column 
                                                             dropna removes 
                                                             the Nan 
                                                             values else we 
                                                             will get 
                                                             the entire 
                                                             sheets max 
                                                             column length . 
                                                             +2 gets 
                                                             the next column 
                                                             right after the 
                                                             last column to 
                                                             enter data '''
   cellref = sheet.cell(row = max+index, column=col)
   cellref.value = i
   del panda_xl_rd

------------------------Solution 2 ----------------------

https://stackoverflow.com/a/52816289/10003981

------------------------Solution 3 ----------------------

https://stackoverflow.com/a/52817637/10003981

Maybe solution 3 is a more concise one !!

Solution 1

Question: i want max_column containing data in Column 'C' it should return 10:

Simple count cell.value not Empty
Documentation Accessing many cells

PSEUDOCODE

for cell in Column('C'):
    if not cell.value is empty:
        count += 1

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Comment: What if we have an empty cell in between?

Count the Rows in sync with the Column Range, and use a maxRowWithData variable. This will also work with no empty cell between.

PSEUDOCODE

for row index, cell in enumerate Column('C'):
    if not cell.value is empty:
        maxRowWithData = row index

Note: The cell index of openpyxl is 1-based!

Documentation: enumerate(iterable, start=0)

Solution 2

"Empty" is a relative concept so your code should be clear about this. The methods in openpyxl are guaranteed to return orthogonal result sets: the length of rows and columns will always be the same.

Using this we can work deduce the row highest row in column of a cell where the value is not None.

max_row_for_c = max((c.row for c in ws['C'] if c.value is not None))

Solution 3

why not just find the length of column 'C' result would be same output-->10 because when u will get the column 'C' values it will present u as tuple elements so just take length of tuple which would come =10

import Openpyxl

file=openpyxl.load_workbook('example.xlsx')

current_sheet=file.get_sheet_by_name('sheet1')  

Column_C=current_sheet['C']   

print ( len(column_C))

data.close()
data.closed()

Comments

[ASHISH M.G]

What if we have an empty cell in between? Normally we would'nt have , but just being curious

[ASHISH M.G]

Thanks for the prompt reply ! But this is just returning me the Column name : 'C'

[ASHISH M.G]

This is working good for me !! Thanks for the prompt reply . Will update both solutions in the question section itself!!

[Zeitounator]

Please separate your explanations from code and provide a full code block formatted correctly with a working solution. Thanks in advance.

[Chandra Shekhar]

it is throwing error : NameError: name 'empty' is not defined

[stovfl]

@ChandraShekhar "NameError: name 'empty' is not defined": Have you noticed the word PSEUDOCODE, means it is not working code. You have to extend it to valid Python code for your needs.

[Chandra Shekhar]

@stovfl Thanks I had missed that word