Read DATE_TIME cells to python datetime object

Question

Read DATE_TIME cells to python datetime object

supern8ent opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

When range.get_values reads a DATE_TIME cell, you get a floating point number. For example, "4/26/2020 10:56:36" is returned as 43947.45597.

It would be helpful to me and probably a lot of people if range.get_values returned a datetime.datetime object. (I noticed that writing datetimes to gsheets is implemented.)

pygsheets has the same problem with their pygsheets.worksheet.Worksheet.get_values(), but at least I can retrieve cell.format and, if it is DATE_TIME, convert the floating point number to datetime (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47508174/convert-google-sheet-date-serial-value-into-human-readable-date)

Lastly, thank you for sheetfu! I haven't used it much yet, but the syntax and docs look great!

Philippe Oger · Answer 1 · Sat May 23 2020 20:25:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks @supern8ent . We have an issue talking about this specifically already in here: #23

Nobody has already addresses it yet, but I may start implementing it at some point. If you feel the courage of implementing it yourself, we definitely accept PR.

Ouroboros Chrysopoeia · Answer 2 · Mon Mar 22 2021 08:48:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Both datetime (w/ or w/o TZ) and date objects should ideally be bidirectionally and transparently supported. This support looks to be lacking for the most part in sheetfu.

Philippe Oger · Answer 3 · Thu Nov 18 2021 03:59:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@impredicative @impredicative
Thanks for your feedback. Really helpful. I'm currently adding this feature on #58
It will work to the Range object and ultimately to the Table object too.

Philippe Oger · Answer 4 · Sat Nov 27 2021 00:18:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This has been implemented. Thanks for proposing the feature. This is a really cool thing.

Ouroboros Chrysopoeia · Answer 5 · Wed Dec 01 2021 21:19:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@philippe2803 datetime support looks to be completely broken with v1.6.0. sheetfu now can't even read a table with a datetime column! It gives the error "ValueError: could not convert string to float". This used to work fine with v1.5.6. I have to roll back. sheetfu can't write a datetime object either into a table except if I convert it to a float, and this too used to work previously in v1.5.6.

Philippe Oger · Answer 6 · Thu Dec 02 2021 20:22:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@impredicative
Reopening the issue to figure this out.
Would you be able to share a sample sheet with me so I can repeat the bug and figure out where and how the bug occurs?