reading excel to a python data frame starting from row 5 and including headers

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I have an excel workbook that runs some vba on opening which refreshes a pivot table and does some other stuff. Then I wish to import the results of the pivot table refresh into a dataframe in python for further analysis. ``` import xlrd wb = xlrd.open_workbook('C:\Users\cb\Machine_Learning\cMap_Joins.xlsm') ``` The refreshing and opening of the file works fine. But how do I select the data from the first sheet from say row 5 including header down to last record n.

Accepted Answer

You can use pandas' ExcelFile `parse` method to read Excel sheets, see io docs:

```
xls = pd.ExcelFile('C:\Users\cb\Machine_Learning\cMap_Joins.xlsm')

df = xls.parse('Sheet1', skiprows=4, index_col=None, na_values=['NA'])
```

`skiprows` will ignore the first 4 rows (i.e. start at row index 4), and several other options.

reading excel to a python data frame starting from row 5 and including headers

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