SetCell Method (Python)

.SetCell(cell). Sets the value for the cell specified by the currently selected set of category values. The argument cell is the value, specified as a CellText object (one of CellText.Number, CellText.String, CellText.VarName, or CellText.VarValue). Category values are selected using the SetCategories method as shown in the following example.

Example

table = spss.BasePivotTable("Table Title",
                            "OMS table subtype")

rowdim = table.Append(spss.Dimension.Place.row,"rowdim")
coldim = table.Append(spss.Dimension.Place.column,"coldim")

# Define category values and set the currently selected set of
# category values to "row1" for rowdim and "column1" for coldim.
table.SetCategories(rowdim,spss.CellText.String("row1"))
table.SetCategories(coldim,spss.CellText.String("column1"))

# Set the value for the current cell specified by the currently
# selected set of category values.
table.SetCell(spss.CellText.Number(11))

table.SetCategories(rowdim,spss.CellText.String("row2"))
table.SetCategories(coldim,spss.CellText.String("column2"))

# Set the value for the current cell. Its category values are "row2"
# for rowdim and "column2" for coldim.
table.SetCell(spss.CellText.Number(22))

# Set the currently selected category to "row1" for rowdim.
table.SetCategories(rowdim,spss.CellText.String("row1"))

# Set the value for the current cell. Its category values are "row1"
# for rowdim and "column2" for coldim.

table.SetCell(spss.CellText.Number(12))

• In this example, Number objects are used to specify numeric values for the cells. Values will be formatted using the table's default format. Instances of the BasePivotTable class have an implicit default format of GeneralStat. You can change the default format using the SetDefaultFormatSpec method, or you can override the default by explicitly specifying the format, as in: CellText.Number(22,spss.FormatSpec.Correlation). See the topic Number Class (Python) for more information.