Issue with set_column actual width different from set width

Hi,

I am using XlsxWriter to do set the width to 8.5 but it appears to set it to 8.57. Setting 8.5x also sets it to 8.57.

I am using Python version 3.7 and XlsxWriter 1.1.6 and Excel version 2013.

Here is some code that demonstrates the problem:

import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook("x.xlsx")
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet.set_column('A:AF', 8.50)

workbook.close()

[jmcnamara]

Ok. That is why the column sizes are different and why you can set 8.50 exactly. However, in the Excel default of “Calabri 11” that XlsxWriter supports, it isn’t possible to set a column width of 8.50.

Even in your set up there are probably sizes that you can’t set. For example any of the sizes between 56 and 57 pixels.

[helixquar]

The size is not the default.

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