Formula not working

I’m trying to use HYPERLINK formula as follows -

ws.set_cell_value(1, 1, '=HYPERLINK("www.someurl.com", "Click here")')

But when I look at the underlying cell(1, 1) in excel file, it complains that formula is invalid. Actually pyexcelerate prepends an additional = sign, so above formula is translated to -

==HYPERLINK(“www.someurl.com”, “Click here”)

I also tried to use the formula without = sign as follows -

ws.set_cell_value(1, 1, 'HYPERLINK("www.someurl.com", "Click here")')

So in this is case excel client complains that that formula is invalid, it’s because there is no = sign, so above formula is translated to -

HYPERLINK(“www.someurl.com”, “Click here”)

valid formula must contain only one = sign in the cell, e.g.

=HYPERLINK(“www.someurl.com”, “Click here”) #This is valid

[kevmo314]

Fixed in the latest dev version, indeed Excel seems to be more lenient in parsing formulas that don’t match the spec exactly.

[suyash248]

It would be convenient if you could merge this fix to master.