Open In App

Convert Excel to CSV in Python

Improve
Improve
Like Article
Like
Save
Share
Report

In this article, we will be dealing with the conversion of Excel (.xlsx) file into .csv.  There are two formats mostly used in Excel :

  1. (*.xlsx) : Excel Microsoft Office Open XML Format Spreadsheet file.
  2. (*.xls) : Excel Spreadsheet (Excel 97-2003 workbook).

Let’s Consider a dataset of a shopping store having data about Customer Serial Number, Customer Name, Customer ID, and Product Cost stored in Excel file. 

check all used files here.

Python3




# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# read an excel file and convert 
# into a dataframe object
df = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_excel("Test.xlsx"))
  
# show the dataframe
df


Output : 

shopping dataframe

Now, let’s see different ways to convert an Excel file into a CSV file :

Method 1: Convert Excel file to CSV file using the pandas library.

Pandas is an open-source software library built for data manipulation and analysis for Python programming language. It offers various functionality in terms of data structures and operations for manipulating numerical tables and time series. It can read, filter, and re-arrange small and large datasets and output them in a range of formats including Excel, JSON, CSV.

For reading an excel file, using the read_excel() method and convert the data frame into the CSV file, use to_csv() method of pandas.

Code:

Python3




#importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
  
# Read and store content
# of an excel file 
read_file = pd.read_excel ("Test.xlsx")
  
# Write the dataframe object
# into csv file
read_file.to_csv ("Test.csv"
                  index = None,
                  header=True)
    
# read csv file and convert 
# into a dataframe object
df = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_csv("Test.csv"))
  
# show the dataframe
df


 Output: 

shopping dataframefile show

 

Method 2: Convert Excel file to CSV file using xlrd and CSV library.

xlrd is a library with the main purpose to read an excel file. 

csv is a library with the main purpose to read and write a csv file.

Code:

Python3




# import all required library
import xlrd 
import csv
import pandas as pd
  
# open workbook by sheet index,
# optional - sheet_by_index()
sheet = xlrd.open_workbook("Test.xlsx").sheet_by_index(0)
  
# writer object is created
col = csv.writer(open("T.csv"
                      'w'
                      newline=""))
  
# writing the data into csv file
for row in range(sheet.nrows):
    # row by row write 
    # operation is perform
    col.writerow(sheet.row_values(row))
  
# read csv file and convert 
# into a dataframe object
df = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_csv("T.csv"))
  
# show the dataframe
df


 Output: 

shopping dataframefile show

Method 3: Convert Excel file to CSV file using openpyxl and CSV library.

openpyxl is a library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.It was born from lack of existing library to read/write natively from Python the Office Open XML format.

Code:

Python3




# importe required libraries
import openpyxl
import csv
import pandas as pd
  
# open given workbook 
# and store in excel object 
excel = openpyxl.load_workbook("Test.xlsx")
  
# select the active sheet
sheet = excel.active
  
# writer object is created
col = csv.writer(open("tt.csv",
                      'w'
                      newline=""))
  
# writing the data in csv file
for r in sheet.rows:
    # row by row write 
    # operation is perform
    col.writerow([cell.value for cell in r])
  
# read the csv file and 
# convert into dataframe object 
df = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_csv("tt.csv"))
  
# show the dataframe
df


 Output: 

shopping dataframefiles show



Last Updated : 13 Mar, 2023
Like Article
Save Article
Previous
Next
Share your thoughts in the comments
Similar Reads