TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta days component: unicode

[kath]

Hi,

the following shows the contents of "datebook.xls"

Date
8/9/2006
8/9/2006
8/9/2006
8/9/2006
8/9/2006

# read_date.py
import xlrd

book = xlrd.open_workbook("datebook.xls")
sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)
ex_qdate=sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0)
pyd=datetime.date(1900,1,1)+datetime.timedelta(day s=sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0))
print pyd

for c in range(sh.ncols):
for r in range(sh.nrows):
print sh.cell_value(rowx=r,colx=c)
print
datetime.date(1900,1,1)+datetime.timedelta(days=sh .cell_value(rowx=r,colx=c))

---- Output ----

>>>

2006-08-11
Date
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/Python23/Testing area/Python and Excel/read_date.py", line
12, in ?
print
datetime.date(1900,1,1)+datetime.timedelta(days=sh .cell_value(rowx=r,colx=c))
TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta days component: unicode

>>>

The first print statement gives me desired output. Whats wrong with
second print statement?
When I give the discriptor or index explicitly its giving the correct
answer.
Why not in the loop?

Am I wrong some where?
Please help me.
Thank you,
Sudhir.

[John Machin]

kath wrote:

Hi,

the following shows the contents of "datebook.xls"

Date
8/9/2006
8/9/2006
8/9/2006
8/9/2006
8/9/2006

# read_date.py
import xlrd

book = xlrd.open_workbook("datebook.xls")
sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)
ex_qdate=sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0)
pyd=datetime.date(1900,1,1)+datetime.timedelta(day s=sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0))

############################
Go back and read *ALL* the responses to your previous question. The
above is *INCORRECT*. As you can see, for input of 8/9/2006 (M/D/YYYY
format), it produces 2006-08-11.
*Please* read the sections on Excel dates in the xlrd documentation.
############################

print pyd

for c in range(sh.ncols):
for r in range(sh.nrows):
print sh.cell_value(rowx=r,colx=c)

Problem 1: you are including the heading.
Add this in here:
print "row %d, col %d, cell_type %d" % (r, c,
sh.cell_type(r, c))
and that might give you a clue.

print
datetime.date(1900,1,1)+datetime.timedelta(days=sh .cell_value(rowx=r,colx=c))

Maybe Problem 2: your posting seems to be missing indentation on this
line.

>
---- Output ----

>>

2006-08-11
Date
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/Python23/Testing area/Python and Excel/read_date.py", line

How do you manage to get both "D:" and "/" in a path? Which version of
which OS are you running?

Why are you using Python 2.3?

Why are you keeping your own files in a subdirectory of your Python
installation?

12, in ?
print
datetime.date(1900,1,1)+datetime.timedelta(days=sh .cell_value(rowx=r,colx=c))
TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta days component: unicode

>>

The first print statement gives me desired output. Whats wrong with
second print statement?
When I give the discriptor or index explicitly its giving the correct
answer.
Why not in the loop?

As explained above.

>
Am I wrong some where?

I think that's not an reasonable conclusion :-)

HTH,
John

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Machin wrote:

Why are you keeping your own files in a subdirectory of your Python
installation?

IDLE defaults to the installation directory, so that's an easy thing
to do. and as long as you put it in a subdirectory, it's not much of a
problem either. (at least not until you want to uninstall Python...)

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