Remove borders on indexes with Pandas + xlsxwriter

Question

It seems that xlsxwriter automatically adds borders around pandas df indexes. How can I remove the borders, after the data has been written? It seems when I try to use something like

worksheet.set_column('A:A', None, test_format) #test_format just makes borders = 0 

It either removes the values, or does nothing at all...

Here is an example setup:

import xlsxwriter
import pandas as pd

# Create a test df
df = pd.DataFrame({'Name': ['Tesla','Tesla','Toyota','Ford','Ford','Ford'],
                   'Type': ['Model X','Model Y','Corolla','Bronco','Fiesta','Mustang']})

df = df.set_index('Name').groupby('Name').apply(lambda x:x[:]) 


# Create a Pandas Excel writer using XlsxWriter as the engine.
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('test.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')

# Convert the dataframe to an XlsxWriter Excel object.
df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='test', startrow=1, merge_cells=True)

## Get the xlsxwriter objects from the dataframe writer object. Setting up xlsxwriter for formatting
workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['test']


writer.save()

Any way to apply formatting after the df has been written to excel? Or altering index formatting?

Answer 1

It seems that xlsxwriter automatically adds borders around pandas df indexes.

Strictly speaking, Pandas adds the borders, using xlsxwriter (or openpyxl or xlwt).

It seems when I try to use something like ... It either removes the values, or does nothing at all.

That is because the cell format, that is already there, overrides the column format.

The usual workaround for this is to turn off the header or index and specify your own like this example in the XlsxWriter docs.

However, in your case you have a multi-index with merged cells so that is a bit trickier to replicate.

Answer 2

From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72419827/11770286

import pandas as pd

pd.io.formats.excel.ExcelFormatter.header_style = None

df.to_excel('')