Class for parsing tabular Excel sheets into DataFrame objects.
See read_excel for more documentation.
A file-like object, xlrd workbook or openpyxl workbook. If a string or path object, expected to be a path to a .xls, .xlsx, .xlsb, .xlsm, .odf, .ods, or .odt file.
If io is not a buffer or path, this must be set to identify io. Supported engines: xlrd, openpyxl, odf, pyxlsb, calamine Engine compatibility :
xlrd supports old-style Excel files (.xls).
openpyxl supports newer Excel file formats.
odf supports OpenDocument file formats (.odf, .ods, .odt).
pyxlsb supports Binary Excel files.
calamine supports Excel (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb) and OpenDocument (.ods) file formats.
Changed in version 1.2.0: The engine xlrd now only supports old-style .xls files. When engine=None, the following logic will be used to determine the engine:
If path_or_buffer is an OpenDocument format (.odf, .ods, .odt), then odf will be used.
Otherwise if path_or_buffer is an xls format, xlrd will be used.
Otherwise if path_or_buffer is in xlsb format, pyxlsb will be used.
Added in version 1.3.0.
Otherwise if openpyxl is installed, then openpyxl will be used.
Otherwise if xlrd >= 2.0 is installed, a ValueError will be raised.
Warning
Please do not report issues when using xlrd to read .xlsx files. This is not supported, switch to using openpyxl instead.
Arbitrary keyword arguments passed to excel engine.
Examples
>>> file = pd.ExcelFile('myfile.xlsx')
>>> with pd.ExcelFile("myfile.xls") as xls:
... df1 = pd.read_excel(xls, "Sheet1")
Attributes
Methods
| close io if necessary |
| Parse specified sheet(s) into a DataFrame. |
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https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/2.3.0/reference/api/pandas.ExcelFile.html