Pandas: Always selecting the first sheet/tab in an Excel Sheet

13
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I know how to get the list of sheet names. The excel file I am using has multiple sheets. How do I select the first one sequentially ? I don't know the name of the sheet but I need to select the first one. How would I go about this ?

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pythonexcelpython-3.xpandasxlsx
read_excel the sheetname param defaults to 0 which is the first sheet - EdChum
even if there are multiple sheets it selects the first one ? - Meghdeep Ray
Yes, why don't you try it - EdChum

3 Answers

24
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The first sheet is automatically selected when the Excel table is read into a dataframe.

To be explicit however, the command is :

import pandas as pd
fd = 'file path'
data = pd.read_excel( fd, sheet_name=0 )

Use of 'sheetname' is deprecated. Please use sheet_name

2
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Also this bug at the time of writing: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/17107

Use 'sheetname', not 'sheet_name'.

0
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Following the official documentation and as already suggested by EdChum, it's enough to use read_excell passing sheetname=N as argument. N=0 for the first sheet, N=1 for the second, N=2 for the third and so on..