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Let’s see how to read excel files to Pandas dataframe objects using Pandas.
Code #1 : Read an excel file using read_excel() method of pandas. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# read by default 1st sheet of an excel file
dataframe1 = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx')
 
print(dataframe1)


Output : 
 

        Name  Age    Stream  Percentage
0      Ankit   18      Math          95
1      Rahul   19   Science          90
2    Shaurya   20  Commerce          85
3  Aishwarya   18      Math          80
4   Priyanka   19   Science          75

  
Code #2 : Reading Specific Sheets using ‘sheet_name’ of read_excel() method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# read 2nd sheet of an excel file
dataframe2 = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', sheet_name = 1)
 
print(dataframe2)


Output : 
 

       Name  Age    Stream  Percentage
0     Priya   18      Math          95
1  shivangi   19   Science          90
2      Jeet   20  Commerce          85
3    Ananya   18      Math          80
4   Swapnil   19   Science          75

  
Code #3 : Reading Specific Columns using ‘usecols’ parameter of read_excel() method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
require_cols = [0, 3]
 
# only read specific columns from an excel file
required_df = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', usecols = require_cols)
 
print(required_df)


Output : 
 

        Name  Percentage
0      Ankit          95
1      Rahul          90
2    Shaurya          85
3  Aishwarya          80
4   Priyanka          75

  
Code #4 : Handling missing data using ‘na_values’ parameter of the read_excel() method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# Handling missing values of 3rd sheet of an excel file.
dataframe = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', na_values = "Missing",
                                                    sheet_name = 2)
 
print(dataframe)


Output : 
 

       Name  Age   Stream  Percentage
0     Priya   18     Math          95
1  shivangi   19  Science          90
2      Jeet   20      NaN          85
3    Ananya   18     Math          80
4   Swapnil   19  Science          75

  
Code #5 : Skip starting rows when Reading an Excel File using ‘skiprows’ parameter of read_excel() method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# read 2nd sheet of an excel file after
# skipping starting two rows
df = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', sheet_name = 1, skiprows = 2)
 
print(df)


Output : 
 

  shivangi  19   Science  90
0     Jeet  20  Commerce  85
1   Ananya  18      Math  80
2  Swapnil  19   Science  75

  
Code #6 : Set the header to any row and start reading from that row, using ‘header’ parameter of the read_excel() method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# setting the 3rd row as header.
df = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', sheet_name = 1, header = 2)
 
print(df)


Output : 
 

  shivangi  19   Science  90
0     Jeet  20  Commerce  85
1   Ananya  18      Math  80
2  Swapnil  19   Science  75

  
Code #7 : Reading Multiple Excel Sheets using ‘sheet_name’ parameter of the read_excel()method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# read both 1st and 2nd sheet.
df = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', na_values = "Missing",
                                        sheet_name =[0, 1])
 
print(df)


Output : 
 

OrderedDict([(0,         Name  Age    Stream  Percentage
0      Ankit   18      Math          95
1      Rahul   19   Science          90
2    Shaurya   20  Commerce          85
3  Aishwarya   18      Math          80
4   Priyanka   19   Science          75),

(1,        Name  Age    Stream  Percentage
0     Priya   18      Math          95
1  shivangi   19   Science          90
2      Jeet   20  Commerce          85
3    Ananya   18      Math          80
4   Swapnil   19   Science          75)])

  
Code #8 : Reading all Sheets of the excel file together using ‘sheet_name’ parameter of the read_excel() method. 
 

Python3




# import pandas lib as pd
import pandas as pd
 
# read all sheets together.
all_sheets_df = pd.read_excel('SampleWork.xlsx', na_values = "Missing",
                                                     sheet_name = None)
 
print(all_sheets_df)


Output : 
 

OrderedDict([('Sheet1',         Name  Age    Stream  Percentage
0      Ankit   18      Math          95
1      Rahul   19   Science          90
2    Shaurya   20  Commerce          85
3  Aishwarya   18      Math          80
4   Priyanka   19   Science          75),

('Sheet2',        Name  Age    Stream  Percentage
0     Priya   18      Math          95
1  shivangi   19   Science          90
2      Jeet   20  Commerce          85
3    Ananya   18      Math          80
4   Swapnil   19   Science          75), 

('Sheet3',        Name  Age   Stream  Percentage
0     Priya   18     Math          95
1  shivangi   19  Science          90
2      Jeet   20      NaN          85
3    Ananya   18     Math          80
4   Swapnil   19  Science          75)])

 



Last Updated : 16 Aug, 2021
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