xlutils.margins

This combined module and script provide information on how much space is taken up in an Excel file by cells containing no meaningful data. If xlutils is installed using easy_install, pip or zc.buildout, a console script called margins will be created.

The following example shows how it is used as a script:

python -m xlutils.margins [options] *.xls

To get a list of the available options, do the following:

python -m xlutils.margins --help

The module also provides the tools that do the work for the above script as the helpful ispunc(), cells_all_junk(), number_of_good_rows() and number_of_good_cols() functions.

See the API Reference for more information.