The xlsx_writer function is a slightly modified version of xlsx_writer, which we created in Chapter 6, Extracting Artifacts from Binary Files. We use the same xlsxwriter third-party module to handle the excel output. On line 32, we use list comprehension to create a list of capitalized alphabetical characters from A to Z. We're going to use this list to designate the column letter based on the supplied headers length. This method works as long as there are less than 26 field names, which for the current set of plugins is true:
001 from __future__ import print_function002 import xlsxwriter...032 ALPHABET = [chr(i) for i in range(ord('A'), ord('Z') + 1)]
On line 44, we create the xlsxwriter workbook and supply the ...
