This project automates filling out part of the headcount sheets for the Champions program at Eliot Upper.

The script can fill out all the sheets for 1 week. It generates two files: one for Pre-K and one for Grade school kids. Each file has a sheet for each day.

1. Download project
2. Install dependencies
3. Replace text file contents
4. Run Python script

Go to https://github.com/ljiang09/headcount. In the top right ish of the screen, click the green "Code" button to show a drop down menu. In this drop down, click "Download ZIP". Once downloaded, unzip into your computer.

To run the code, you must first install some libraries that the code relies on. In the command line, run the following commands:

pip install xlwt

pip install numpy

If you are using the newer version of Python (Python 3), replace pip with pip3.

To generate headcount sheets for the week, you need to update the text file that stores all the data. This is found in headcount_data.txt.

If you look in headcount_data.txt, you'll see a horizontal line =================== near the top. Above all this line, you need to copy and paste the daily totals in the format Wednesday: 48.

Below this, you can copy and paste everything from the table sent in the weekly email, straight as it is.

If you need an example of how to format the entire file, look at example_data_format.txt.

Now, you can finally run the python script and generate Excel files for each day. In the command line, navigate to the folder where this ReadMe file is stored. Then, type either python main.py or python3 main.py, press enter, and see the newly-generated Excel sheets!