How can I open an Excel file in Python

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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

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This isn t as straightforward as opening a plain text file and will require some sort of external module since nothing is built-in to do this  Here are some options    http   www python-excel org   If possible  you may want to consider exporting the excel spreadsheet as a CSV file and then using the built-in python csv module to read it   http   docs python org library csv html

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You can use xlpython package that requires xlrd only   Find it here https   pypi python org pypi xlpython  and its documentation here https   github com morfat xlpython

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There s the openpxyl package    gt  gt  gt  from openpyxl import load workbook  gt  gt  gt  wb2   load workbook  test xlsx    gt  gt  gt  print wb2 get sheet names     Sheet2    New Title    Sheet1     gt  gt  gt  worksheet1   wb2  Sheet1     one way to load a worksheet  gt  gt  gt  worksheet2   wb2 get sheet by name  Sheet2     another way to load a worksheet  gt  gt  gt  print worksheet1  D18   value  3  gt  gt  gt  for row in worksheet1 iter rows     gt  gt  gt      print row 0  value

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Try the xlrd library    Edit  - from what I can see from your comment  something like the snippet below might do the trick  I m assuming here that you re just searching one column for the word  john   but you could add more or make this into a more generic function   from xlrd import open workbook  book   open workbook  simple xls  on demand True  for name in book sheet names        if name endswith  2            sheet   book sheet by name name             Attempt to find a matching row  search the first column for  john           rowIndex   -1         for cell in sheet col 0                  if  john  in cell value                  break            If we found the row  print it         if row    -1              cells   sheet row row              for cell in cells                  print cell value          book unload sheet name

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This may help   This creates a node that takes a 2D List  list of list items  and pushes them into the excel spreadsheet  make sure the IN  s are present or will throw and exception   this is a re-write of the Revit excel dynamo node for excel 2013 as the default prepackaged node kept breaking  I also have a similar read node  The excel syntax in Python is touchy   thnx  CodingNinja - updated         Export Excel - intended to replace malfunctioning excel node  import clr  clr AddReferenceByName  Microsoft Office Interop Excel  Version 15 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 71e9bce111e9429c     AddReferenceGUID   00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046      Excel                            C  Program Files Microsoft Office Office15 EXCEL EXE    Need to Verify interop for version 2015 is 15 and node attachemnt for it  from Microsoft Office Interop import      Excel                                 Initialize FP and Sheet ID   Same functionality as the excel node strFileName   IN 0                Filename sheetName   IN 1                  Sheet RowOffset  IN 2                   RowOffset ColOffset  IN 3                   COL OFfset Data IN 4                         Data Overwrite IN 5                    Check for auto-overwtite XLVisible   False    IN 6         XL Visible for operation or not   RowOffset 0 if IN 2  gt 0      RowOffset IN 2                RowOffset  ColOffset 0 if IN 3  gt 0      ColOffset IN 3                COL OFfset  if IN 6  lt  gt False      XLVisible   True  IN 6        XL Visible for operation or not                                   Initialize FP and Sheet ID xlCellTypeLastCell   11                      define special sells value constant                                  xls   Excel ApplicationClass                Connect with application xls Visible   XLVisible                   VISIBLE YES NO xls DisplayAlerts   False                   ALerts  import os path  if os path isfile strFileName       wb   xls Workbooks Open strFileName  False          Open the file  else      wb   xls Workbooks add              Open the file      wb SaveAs strFileName  wb application visible   XLVisible          Show Excel try      ws   wb Worksheets sheetName            Get the sheet in the WB base  except      ws   wb sheets add                      If it doesn t exist- add it  use    for object method     ws Name   sheetName                                       lastRow for iterating rows lastRow ws UsedRange SpecialCells xlCellTypeLastCell  Row  lastCol for iterating columns lastCol ws UsedRange SpecialCells xlCellTypeLastCell  Column                                                                         out                                        MESSAGE GATHERING  c 0 r 0 val    if Overwrite    False                       Look ahead for non-empty cells to throw error     for r  row in enumerate Data         BASE 0   EACH ROW OF DATA ENUMERATED in the 2D array  range  RowOffset  lastRow   RowOffset           for c  col in enumerate  row       BASE 0   Each colmn in each row is a cell with data     in range ColOffset  lastCol   ColOffset               if col Value2  gt                      OUT   ERROR- Cannot overwrite                  raise ValueError  ERROR- Cannot overwrite     out append Data 0     append mesage for error                                                                               for r  row in enumerate Data         BASE 0   EACH ROW OF DATA ENUMERATED in the 2D array  range  RowOffset  lastRow   RowOffset       for c  col in enumerate  row       BASE 0   Each colmn in each row is a cell with data     in range ColOffset  lastCol   ColOffset           ws Cells r 1 RowOffset c 1 ColOffset  Value2   col   str        run macro disbled for debugging excel macro   xls Application Run  Align data and Highlight Issues

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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   gt  gt  gt   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

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This code worked for me with Python 3 5 2  It opens and saves and excel  I am currently working on how to save data into the file but this is the code   import csv excel   csv writer open  file1 csv    wb       nbsp

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import pandas as pd  import os  files   os listdir  path to files directory    desiredFile   files i  filePath    path to files directory  s  Ofile   filePath   desiredFile xls import   pd read csv Ofile    Now you can use the power of pandas DataFrames

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