Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible
# Your code here
import pandas as pd
import copy
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('result.xlsx')
cp = copy.deepcopy(writer)
print(cp.path)
Problem description
For some reason it throws an error, which it shouldn't. It throws this error: TypeError: new() missing 1 required positional argument: 'path'
Expected Output
'result.xlsx'
Output of pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
commit: None
python: 3.6.2.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 10
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: None
LOCALE: None.None
pandas: 0.20.3
pytest: None
pip: 9.0.1
setuptools: 27.2.0
Cython: 0.26
numpy: 1.13.1
scipy: 0.19.1
xarray: None
IPython: None
sphinx: None
patsy: 0.4.1
dateutil: 2.6.1
pytz: 2017.2
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: None
numexpr: 2.6.2
feather: None
matplotlib: 2.0.2
openpyxl: 2.4.8
xlrd: 1.0.0
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: 0.9.6
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: None
sqlalchemy: None
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: None
s3fs: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None
Comment From: chris-b1
Why are you copying an ExcelWriter - not any reason I can think of do that?
Even if we did support this, it wouldn't really work - each copy would hold a separate xlsxwriter handle to the file and would overwrite the others' changes.
In [9]: import xlsxwriter
In [10]: from xlsxwriter import Workbook
In [11]: wb = Workbook('result.xlsx')
In [12]: wb2 = Workbook('result.xlsx')
In [13]: wb.add_worksheet('tmp1')
Out[13]: <xlsxwriter.worksheet.Worksheet at 0xc6f1278>
In [14]: wb.close()
# overwrites what was done with wb
In [15]: wb2.close()
Comment From: jreback
closing as won't fix. This is a mis-use of the API.