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# pandas.DataFrame.to_excel

DataFrame.to_excel(excel_writer, *, sheet_name='Sheet1', na_rep='', float_format=None, columns=None, header=True, index=True, index_label=None, startrow=0, startcol=0, engine=None, merge_cells=True, inf_rep='inf', freeze_panes=None, storage_options=None, engine_kwargs=None)

  Write object to an Excel sheet.

  To write a single object to an Excel .xlsx file it is only necessary to specify a target file name. To write to multiple sheets it is necessary to create an ExcelWriter object with a target file name, and specify a sheet in the file to write to.

  Multiple sheets may be written to by specifying unique sheet_name. With all data written to the file it is necessary to save the changes. Note that creating an ExcelWriter object with a file name that already exists will result in the contents of the existing file being erased.

  Parameters:
    excel_writer path-like, file-like, or ExcelWriter object

      File path or existing ExcelWriter.

    sheet_name str, default ‘Sheet1’

      Name of sheet which will contain DataFrame.

    na_rep str, default ‘’

      Missing data representation.

    float_format str, optional

      Format string for floating point numbers. For example `float_format="%.2f"` will format 0.1234 to 0.12.

    columns sequence or list of str, optional

      Columns to write.

    header bool or list of str, default True

      Write out the column names. If a list of string is given it is assumed to be aliases for the column names.

    index bool, default True

      Write row names (index).

    index_label str or sequence, optional

      Column label for index column(s) if desired. If not specified, and header and index are True, then the index names are used. A sequence should be given if the DataFrame uses MultiIndex.

    startrow int, default 0

      Upper left cell row to dump data frame.

    startcol int, default 0

      Upper left cell column to dump data frame.

    engine str, optional

      Write engine to use, ‘openpyxl’ or ‘xlsxwriter’. You can also set this via the options `io.excel.xlsx.writer` or `io.excel.xlsm.writer`.

    merge_cells bool, default True

      Write MultiIndex and Hierarchical Rows as merged cells.

    inf_rep str, default ‘inf’

      Representation for infinity (there is no native representation for infinity in Excel).

    freeze_panes tuple of int (length 2), optional

      Specifies the one-based bottommost row and rightmost column that is to be frozen.

    storage_options dict, optional

      Extra options that make sense for a particular storage connection, e.g. host, port, username, password, etc. For HTTP(S) URLs the key-value pairs are forwarded to `urllib.request.Request` as header options. For other URLs (e.g. starting with “s3://”, and “gcs://”) the key-value pairs are forwarded to `fsspec.open`. Please see `fsspec` and `urllib` for more details, and for more examples on storage options refer here.

      Added in version 1.2.0.

    engine_kwargs dict, optional

      Arbitrary keyword arguments passed to excel engine.

  See also

  `to_csv`

    Write DataFrame to a comma-separated values (csv) file.

  `ExcelWriter`

    Class for writing DataFrame objects into excel sheets.

  `read_excel`

    Read an Excel file into a pandas DataFrame.

  `read_csv`

    Read a comma-separated values (csv) file into DataFrame.

  `io.formats.style.Styler.to_excel`

    Add styles to Excel sheet.

  Notes

  For compatibility with `to_csv()`, to_excel serializes lists and dicts to strings before writing.

  Once a workbook has been saved it is not possible to write further data without rewriting the whole workbook.

  Examples

  Create, write to and save a workbook:

      >>> df1 = pd.DataFrame([['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']],
      ...                    index=['row 1', 'row 2'],
      ...                    columns=['col 1', 'col 2'])
      >>> df1.to_excel("output.xlsx")

  To specify the sheet name:

      >>> df1.to_excel("output.xlsx",
      ...              sheet_name='Sheet_name_1')

  If you wish to write to more than one sheet in the workbook, it is necessary to specify an ExcelWriter object:

      >>> df2 = df1.copy()
      >>> with pd.ExcelWriter('output.xlsx') as writer:
      ...     df1.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet_name_1')
      ...     df2.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet_name_2')

  ExcelWriter can also be used to append to an existing Excel file:

      >>> with pd.ExcelWriter('output.xlsx',
      ...                     mode='a') as writer:
      ...     df1.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='Sheet_name_3')

  To set the library that is used to write the Excel file, you can pass the engine keyword (the default engine is automatically chosen depending on the file extension):

      >>> df1.to_excel('output1.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')