Feature request: Boolean types to have their own write function

Currently, if you write a boolean type it falls under the numeric type and writes it as either a ‘1’ or a ‘0’.

Perhaps a boolean should be explicitly checked for and written as either “TRUE” or “FALSE”

from xlsxwriter import Workbook

wb = Workbook("test.xlsx")
ws = wb.add_worksheet("My Worksheet")
ws.write("A1", True)

wb.close()

[Ambro17]

I can confirm that i’m also using libreoffice and i see the same behaviour. You seem to be correct @jmcnamara as it sets the value as a boolean, but it nevertheless shows an integer value.

And to confirm, i opened it on excel and it has the expected behaviour. I think libreoffice writer should set the cell format to boolean when it detects a boolean literal as the cell value as it better reflects the intended value

[reinderien]

Interestingly, that file has the format set explicitly to “Number / General”, so it does what I would expect - show 1/0. That file requires a similar work-around of changing the format to “Boolean” before TRUE and FALSE appear.