How do I open a file that is an Excel file for reading in Python?
I've opened text files, for example, sometextfile.txt
with the reading command. How do I do that for an Excel file?
Edit:
In the newer version of pandas, you can pass the sheet name as a parameter.
file_name = # path to file + file name
sheet = # sheet name or sheet number or list of sheet numbers and names
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel(io=file_name, sheet_name=sheet)
print(df.head(5)) # print first 5 rows of the dataframe
Check the docs for examples on how to pass sheet_name
:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_excel.html
Old version:
you can use pandas
package as well....
When you are working with an excel file with multiple sheets, you can use:
import pandas as pd
xl = pd.ExcelFile(path + filename)
xl.sheet_names
>>> [u'Sheet1', u'Sheet2', u'Sheet3']
df = xl.parse("Sheet1")
df.head()
df.head()
will print first 5 rows of your Excel file
If you're working with an Excel file with a single sheet, you can simply use:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel(path + filename)
print df.head()