Dyntools Overwrite Excel Sheet

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I think that this overwritesheet = true option will overwrite latest sheet if it is called more than once during simulation.

In my case, I am re running the script rather than using the dyntools command more than once in the same script.

To overcome this, I check for and delete existing excel file in directory by adding the following code just before using dyntools.CHNF.xlsout(..)

if os.path.exists(xlsoutput):
   try:
      os.remove(xlsoutput)
   except WindowsError:
      print 'file is open'

if you also have lots of sheets you could delete a folder and remake it instead of each sheet,

if os.path.exists(PathDir + r"\sheets"):
    shutil.rmtree(PathDir + r"\sheets")
    os.makedirs(PathDir + r"\sheets")

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I have the following problem Dyntools does not extract data from file out

** LINES PER PAGE for FILE OUTPUT set to 60

Output completed Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\0-C\0-Simulaciones\Caso\Simulación.py", line 227, in <module> datosexcel = dyntools.CHNF(archivoout + '.out') File ".\dyntools.py", line 1023, in init File ".\dyntools.py", line 351, in outextractdata File ".\dyntools.py", line 321, in outextractid

Couldn't open Python file: C:\0-C\0-Simulaciones\Caso\Simulación.py

I found that even if you set overwritesheet = True, it does not always overwrite it. In fact, I have encountered multiple cases where I wanted it to be overwritten but new sheets were added to the workbook instead. Could be a bug.

In v.33.12, the overwritesheet setting works as expected. The following is the code I used:

   try: 
     chnfobj.xlsout(channels=mychannels, 
                    outfile=filei,
                    xlsfile=XLSfile,
                    sheet=sheetname,
                    overwritesheet = True,
                    show=False 
                    )
   except:
     print '\n ERROR: Exporting Channels to %s Excel file, sheet %s failed.'%(XLSfile,sheetname)