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# openpyxl Reviews
**Vendor:** openpyxl  
**Category:** [Component Libraries Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/component-libraries)  
**Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About openpyxl
Openpyxl is a Python library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files. It was born from lack of existing library to read/write natively from Python the Office Open XML format.




## openpyxl Reviews
  ### 1. Best Library To Work With Excel-Sheets in Python

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Thirumal R. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2019

**What do you like best about openpyxl?**

Easy to use
Easy to create multiple sheets
There is also a provision to write  dictionary/list data 
Easy to perform read/write operations between multiple excel files 
It's an open source library 
You can perform search and sort operations on data

**What do you dislike about openpyxl?**

Losing merged cells border while editing Excel file 
Sometimes can't open newly created excel file 
Memory usage is high by comparing with other libraries 

**Recommendations to others considering openpyxl:**

It's an open source library 
Easy to work with multiple excel sheets.
it's very fast in reading operations and give better performance 
You can perform search and sort operations on data

**What problems is openpyxl solving and how is that benefiting you?**

While working with boring stuff like copying data between multiple files, we can automate it  and reading data is faster by applying search functionality 



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## openpyxl Features
**Functionality**
- Language Contingency
- Component Library
- Unlocked Components

**Management**
- Framework Integration
- Repository Management
- Support

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