Issue with Image Insertion on top of Hidden Columns

Hi,

I am using XlsxWriter to insert an image on top of columns that may or may not be hidden (this is at user discretion). When I insert an image on top of a hidden column then the image is re-sized. I do not want this to happen. I expected that using the ‘object_position’ argument and supplying option 3 (‘don’t move or size with cells’) would solve the problem. But, in fact, it seems that none of the ‘image_position’ options resolve the behaviour.

I believe that this behaviour is different to the default behaviour of MS Excel, and accordingly I suspect that this is a bug. However, I am happy for someone to point out if i’m doing something incorrectly.

I am using Python version 3.7.0 and XlsxWriter 1.1.8 and Excel version 2016 MSO (16.0.4738.1000) 32-bit.

Here’s a minimal illustration:

import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('test.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

worksheet.insert_image('A1', 'cat.jpg', {'object_position': 1})
worksheet.insert_image('A12', 'cat.jpg', {'object_position': 2})
worksheet.insert_image('A24', 'cat.jpg', {'object_position': 3})
worksheet.insert_image('A36', 'cat.jpg', {'object_position': 4})

worksheet.set_column('B:D', None, None, {'hidden': 1})

workbook.close()

This produces an excel in which ALL images are horizontally crushed:

However, if I select cell A1 and then manually insert the image via the excel GUI then all is well:

I note that this problem is very similar to issue #618 - here though I actually want the ‘unwanted’ behaviour from #618. Looking at the associated commit it looks like ‘object_position’ argument 1 is intended to preserve this behaviour, but this doesn’t work for me - as shown above.

[jmcnamara]

Thanks. That is definitely a bug. I’ll look into it.

[StevenRSellers]

That’s great - thanks for the quick resolution; using {'hidden': True} is working for me.