This quick guide covers how to add a column in Excel using Python. It explains the environment configuration, step-by-step process, and a runnable code snippet to add multiple columns in Excel using Python. Furthermore, you can customize the index as well as the number of columns to be inserted as per your requirements.

Steps to Insert Columns in Excel using Python

1. Prepare the environment by installing Aspose.Cells for Python via Java to insert columns
2. Access the input Excel file using the Workbook class and access the target worksheet
3. Insert a column or multiple columns at the target index with insertColumns method
4. Write the output Excel workbook with the added columns

These steps precisely summarize how to add new column in Excel using Python. You only need to make a few API calls to get the input Excel file, insert the columns and export the output Excel file to XLS or XLSX format. Moreover, you can also work with streams and arrays to read and write the respective files.

Code to Insert Columns in Excel using Python

This code snippet demonstrates how to insert column in Excel using Python. Whereas, you can improvise this code to control the number of new columns to be inserted at any specific index while moving the existing columns to the right side. You can work with any overloaded method of insertColumns method where you can also choose to update the existing references or not.

In this article, we have learned how to insert multiple columns in Excel using Python. However, if you want to insert rows in Excel then refer to the article on how to insert Rows in Excel using Python.