Example: Setting Worksheet Tab Colors

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# Example of how to set Excel worksheet tab colors using Python
# and the XlsxWriter module.
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# Copyright 2013-2018, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
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import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('tab_colors.xlsx')

# Set up some worksheets.
worksheet1 = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet2 = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet3 = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet4 = workbook.add_worksheet()

# Set tab colors
worksheet1.set_tab_color('red')
worksheet2.set_tab_color('green')
worksheet3.set_tab_color('#FF9900')  # Orange

# worksheet4 will have the default color.

workbook.close()