how to solve concatenate issue with.cell()? row = row work, column = column gives error - python-2.7

Question

I am looping through an excel sheet, looking for a specific name. When found, I print the position of the cell and the value.
I would like to find the position and value of a neighbouring cell, however I can't get .cell() to work by adding 2, indicating I would like the cell 2 columns away in the same row.
row= row works, but column= column gives error, and column + 2 gives error. Maybe this is due to me listing columns as 'ABCDEFGHIJ' earlier in my code? (For full code, see below)
print 'Cell position {} has value {}'.format(cell_name, currentSheet[cell_name].value)
print 'Cell position next door TEST {}'.format(currentSheet.cell(row=row, column=column +2))
Full code:
file = openpyxl.load_workbook('test6.xlsx', read_only = True)
allSheetNames = file.sheetnames
#print("All sheet names {}" .format(file.sheetnames))
for sheet in allSheetNames:
print('Current sheet name is {}'.format(sheet))
currentSheet = file[sheet]
for row in range(1, currentSheet.max_row + 1):
#print row
for column in 'ABCDEFGHIJ':
cell_name = '{}{}'.format(column,row)
if currentSheet[cell_name].value == 'sign_name':
print 'Cell position {} has value {}'.format(cell_name, currentSheet[cell_name].value)
print 'Cell position TEST {}'.format(currentSheet.cell(row=row, column=column +2))
I get this output:
Current sheet name is Sheet1
Current sheet name is Sheet2
Cell position D5 has value sign_name
and:
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
I get the same error if I try "column = column" as "column = column +2".
Why does row=row work, but column=column dosen't? And how to find the cell name of the cell to the right of my resulting D5 cell?

Answer 1

The reason row=row works and column=column doesn't is because your column value is a string (letter from A to J) while the column argument of a cell is expecting an int (A would be 1, B would be 2, Z would be 26, etc.)
There are a few changes I would make in order to more effectively iterate through the cells and find a neighbor. Firstly, OpenPyXl offers sheet.iter_rows(), which given no arguments, will provide a generator of all rows that are used in the sheet. So you can iterate with
for row in currentSheet.iter_rows():
for cell in row:
because each row is a generator of cells in that row.
Then in this new nested for loop, you can get the current column index with cell.column (D would give 4) and the cell to the right (increment by one column) would be currentSheet.cell(row=row, column=cell.column+1)
Note the difference between the two cell's: currentSheet.cell() is a request for a specific cell while cell.column+1 is the column index of the current cell incremented by 1.
Relevant OpenPyXl documentation:
https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/openpyxl.cell.cell.html
https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/openpyxl.worksheet.worksheet.html