Caxton

Caxton is a typed, declarative Python library for building spreadsheet documents from application data and rendering them to XLSX. Users define the document structure and semantics; Caxton handles layout, compilation, and backend-specific output.

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from caxton import render, sheet, spreadsheet, table, text, write

rows = [{"name": "Ada Lovelace"}, {"name": "Grace Hopper"}]

report = spreadsheet(
    sheet(
        "People",
        table(
            source=rows,
            columns=(text(source="name", title="Name"),),
        ),
    ),
)

result = render(report)

write(report, "people.xlsx")

More examples are available in the example projects.

The project is licensed under the MIT License.

Caxton requires Python 3.10 or newer. Install it with pip:

pip install caxton

No additional setup is required