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/