Table to Excel (10.2 Arcpy)

Table to excel is a great tool for converting your spatial data into an excel spreadsheet.  In the past, before 10.2, you would have to use a 3rd party module like Python Excel in order to convert your data to and from ArcGIS tables to excel spreadsheets.

It should be noted that this only support the MS Excel 5.0/95 format (.xls) file type.

The syntax and use is pretty simple for this tool, it has 4 inputs, the table path (string), out path (string), use field alias (Boolean and optional), and use domain and sub-type description (Boolean and optional).  Let's dive into an example:

import arcpy
import os
if __name__ == '__main__':
    table = r"c:\temp\scratch.gdb\StarbucksAddresses"
    out_excel = r"c:\temp\starbucks.xls"
    if os.path.isfile(out_excel):
        os.remove(out_excel)
    arcpy.TableToExcel_conversion(table, out_excel)

All we have done here is taken the simplest example and convert my list of Starbucks locations and converted to an excel spreadsheet so I can now use it in excel.

Enjoy

ArcGIS Tool help link - http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Table_To_Excel/001200000054000000/

Excel to Table (10.2) Tool

New at ArcGIS 10.2 is the Excel to Table tool.. This tool is found under the conversion toolbox, and it a quick way to easily convert your Excel Workbooks (.xlsx files) and MS Excel 5.0/95 Workbook (.xls files) into geodatabase tables.

• Supports xlsx and xls file extensions
• First row is considered the field names, and can be renamed so a valid table is generated
• It assumes that each field contains uniform data types and the data is not mixed

ExcelToTable() takes the following inputs:

1. Input_Excel_File - MS Office Excel file path 
2. Output_table - export table name and path
3. Sheet (optional) - Name of the sheet to export.  If none is provide the 1st sheet will be exported

Sample:

import arcpy
from arcpy import env
if __name__ == '__main__':
    env.overwriteOutput = True
    xls_file = r"c:\temp\somedata.xls"  # supports xlsx and xls
    dest_gdb = env.scratchGDB
    arcpy.ExcelToTable_conversion(xls_file,
                        os.path.join(dest_gdb, "sheet"))

Pretty easy.  The biggest advantage I see with this tool is if you are in an environment where you cannot install 3rd party modules like xlrd.

Enjoy

ArcGIS 10.2 Help Documentation

With the release of 10.2, it is important to know where you can find help.  The product documents can be found here (http://pro.arcgis.com/documentation/).

Enjoy