{"id":6,"date":"2026-01-20T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:14:53","slug":"how-to-create-and-open-workbooks-using-xlwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/how-to-create-and-open-workbooks-using-xlwings\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Create and Open Workbooks Using xlwings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Method<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a Workbook:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bk=app.Workbooks.Add()<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bk=app.Workbooks.Add(constants.xlWBATChart)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bk=app.Workbooks.Add(r&#8217;C:\\1.xlsx&#8217;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening a Workbook:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bk=app.Workbooks.Open(r&#8217;D:\\test.xlsx&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bk=app.Workbooks.Open(root+r&#8217;\/test.xlsx&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>#Create a workbook<\/b><\/p>\n<p>#xlwings<\/p>\n<p>bk=xw.books.add()<\/p>\n<p>#Or<\/p>\n<p>#bk=xw.Book()<\/p>\n<p>#Or<\/p>\n<p>#app=xw.App()<\/p>\n<p>#bk=xw.books.active<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#xlwings API<\/p>\n<p>#app=xw.App()<\/p>\n<p>#bk=app.api.Workbooks.Add()<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>#Open a workbook<\/b><\/p>\n<p>#xlwings<\/p>\n<p>#bk=xw.books.open(r&#8217;D:\\1.xlsx&#8217;)\u00a0\u00a0 &#8221;d:\/1.xlsx&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#xlwings API<\/p>\n<p>#bk=app.api.Workbooks.Open(r&#8217;D:\\1.xlsx&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Sample Code<\/h2>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>#Creating and Opening Workbooks\n\nimport xlwings as xw    #Import the xlwings package\n\n#Create a workbook\n#xlwings\n#app=xw.App()\n#bk=xw.books.add()\n#Or\n#bk=xw.Book()\n#Or\n#app=xw.App()\n#bk=xw.books.active\n\n#xlwings API\n#app=xw.App()\n#bk=app.api.Workbooks.Add()\n\n#Open a workbook\n#xlwings\napp=xw.App()\nbk=app.books.open(r'data.xlsx')\n\n#xlwings API\n#bk=app.api.Workbooks.Open(r'data.xlsx')\n\nbk.close()\napp.kill()<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xlwings-workbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}