This combined module and script provide information on how much space is taken up in an Excel file by cells containing no meaningful data. If xlutils is installed using easy_install, pip or zc.buildout, a console script called margins will be created.
The following example shows how it is used as a script:
python -m xlutils.margins [options] *.xls
To get a list of the available options, do the following:
python -m xlutils.margins --help
The module also provides the tools that do the work for the above script as the helpful ispunc(), cells_all_junk(), number_of_good_rows() and number_of_good_cols() functions.
See the API Reference for more information.