Listing sheets of Excel spreadsheets
Whether you like it or not, any working data scientist will need to deal with Excel spreadsheets at some point in time. You won't always want to do so in Excel, however!
Here you'll learn how to use pandas to import Excel spreadsheets and how to list the names of the sheets in any loaded .xlsx file.
Recall from the video that, given an Excel file imported into a variable
spreadsheet, you can retrieve a list of the sheet names using the command
spreadsheet.sheet_names.
Specifically, you'll be loading and checking out the spreadsheet
'battledeath.xlsx', modified from the Peace Research Institute Oslo's (PRIO)
dataset.
This data contains age-adjusted mortality rates due to war in various countries over several years.
This exercise is part of the course
Importing Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Assign the filename to the variable
file. - Pass the correct argument to
pd.ExcelFile()to load the file using pandas. - Print the sheetnames of the Excel spreadsheet by passing the necessary argument to the
print()function.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import pandas
import pandas as pd
# Assign spreadsheet filename: file
file = ____
# Load spreadsheet: xl
xl = pd.ExcelFile(____)
# Print sheet names
print(____)