UUID type not supported

Hi,

I am using XlsxWriter to write Pandas dataframes to Excel but it fails with a TypeError when it hits a UUID field.

TypeError: Unsupported type <class 'uuid.UUID'> in write()

I’ve been manually converting all of my UUID columns in the dataframe to strings before converting to Excel, but this is a bit tedious.

I am using Python version 3.5 and XlsxWriter 0.9.4.

Simon

PS - I would do a pull request but I’m in a hurry and don’t know CI.

Basically, the fix I’m using now is: In compatibility.py : a) import uuid b) add uuid.UUID to string types: str_types = (str, uuid.UUID) and str_types = (basestring, uuid.UUID) for Python 2.x

1. In worksheets.py: a) force a convert to string at the beginning of write_string using string = str(string)

take care

[jmcnamara]

@JonnyWaffles See initial prototype code for this on #631

[jmcnamara]

Handling of UUIDs and other user defined data types is now supported in XlsxWriter >= 1.2.1.

See https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/working_with_data.html#writing-user-defined-types and https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/example_user_types1.html#ex-user-type1