Example: Hello World

The simplest possible spreadsheet. This is a good place to start to see if the XlsxWriter module is installed correctly.

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#
# A hello world spreadsheet using the XlsxWriter Python module.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
# Copyright 2013-2023, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
#
import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook("hello_world.xlsx")
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

worksheet.write("A1", "Hello world")

workbook.close()