Hello I am having an issue to convert all the .xls files to .xlsx. other challenge is each .xls file have multiple sheets and I have lot of files to convert. Can you some one help me with a solution
import glob
import pandas as pd
import os
from pandas import ExcelWriter
_list_of_xls_files = glob.glob(r'C:\Users\enter_your_pc_username_here\Documents\*xls')
for _xls_file in _list_of_xls_files:
df = pd.read_excel(_xls_file,sheet_name = None)
_list_of_tabs_inside_xls_file = df.keys()
with ExcelWriter(str(_xls_file).replace('.xls','.xlsx')) as writer:
for n, _sheet_name in enumerate(list_of_tabs_inside_xls_file):
df[_sheet_name].to_excel(writer,'sheet%s' % n)
Source:
1 Using Pandas to pd.read_excel() for multiple worksheets of the same workbook
I'm trying to read binary Excel files using read_excel method in pandas with pyxlsb engine as below:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel('test.xlsb', engine='pyxlsb')
If the xlsb file is like this file (Right now, I'm sharing this file via WeTransfer, but if there is a better way to share files on StackOverflow, let me know), the returned dataframe is filled with NaN's. I suspected that it might be because the file was saved with active cell pointing at the empty cells after the data originally. So I tried this:
import pandas as pd
with open('test.xlsb', 'rb') as data:
data.seek(0,0)
df = pd.read_excel(data, engine='pyxlsb')
but it still doesn't seem to work. I also tried reading the data from byte number 0 (from the beginning), writing it into a new file, 'test_1.xlsb', and finally reading it with pandas, but that doesn't work.
with open('test.xlsb','rb') as data:
data.seek(0,0)
with open('test_1.xlsb','wb') as outfile:
outfile.write(data.read())
df = pd.read_excel('test_1.xlsb', engine='pyxlsb')
If anyone has suggestion as to what might be going on and how to resolve it, I'd greatly appreciate the help.
I am downloading an excel file from a website.
If I just use pandas to open the file
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel('filepath')
I get an error CompDocError: Workbook corruption: seen[2] == 4
If I resave file before opening it everything works fine
import pandas as pd
import win32com.client
def resave_excel(filename):
xcl = win32com.client.Dispatch('Excel.Application')
wb = xcl.workbooks.open(filename)
xcl.DisplayAlerts = False
wb.Save()
xcl.Quit()
resave_excel('filepath')
df = pd.read_excel('filepath')
The problem with this approach is that I actually call Excel application and it is not the safest thing to do, especially if I want to run the full script on some automated basis or if I want to run it on a different platform.
Is there a different approach that I am missing?
The only solution that I found is discussed on https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/issues/149.
Instead of pandas you need to use xlrd and make changes to xlrd/compdoc.py.
I have a 14MB Excel file with five worksheets that I'm reading into a Pandas dataframe, and although the code below works, it takes 9 minutes!
Does anyone have suggestions for speeding it up?
import pandas as pd
def OTT_read(xl,site_name):
df = pd.read_excel(xl.io,site_name,skiprows=2,parse_dates=0,index_col=0,
usecols=[0,1,2],header=None,
names=['date_time','%s_depth'%site_name,'%s_temp'%site_name])
return df
def make_OTT_df(FILEDIR,OTT_FILE):
xl = pd.ExcelFile(FILEDIR + OTT_FILE)
site_names = xl.sheet_names
df_list = [OTT_read(xl,site_name) for site_name in site_names]
return site_names,df_list
FILEDIR='c:/downloads/'
OTT_FILE='OTT_Data_All_stations.xlsx'
site_names_OTT,df_list_OTT = make_OTT_df(FILEDIR,OTT_FILE)
As others have suggested, csv reading is faster. So if you are on windows and have Excel, you could call a vbscript to convert the Excel to csv and then read the csv. I tried the script below and it took about 30 seconds.
# create a list with sheet numbers you want to process
sheets = map(str,range(1,6))
# convert each sheet to csv and then read it using read_csv
df={}
from subprocess import call
excel='C:\\Users\\rsignell\\OTT_Data_All_stations.xlsx'
for sheet in sheets:
csv = 'C:\\Users\\rsignell\\test' + sheet + '.csv'
call(['cscript.exe', 'C:\\Users\\rsignell\\ExcelToCsv.vbs', excel, csv, sheet])
df[sheet]=pd.read_csv(csv)
Here's a little snippet of python to create the ExcelToCsv.vbs script:
#write vbscript to file
vbscript="""if WScript.Arguments.Count < 3 Then
WScript.Echo "Please specify the source and the destination files. Usage: ExcelToCsv <xls/xlsx source file> <csv destination file> <worksheet number (starts at 1)>"
Wscript.Quit
End If
csv_format = 6
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
src_file = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(Wscript.Arguments.Item(0))
dest_file = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(WScript.Arguments.Item(1))
worksheet_number = CInt(WScript.Arguments.Item(2))
Dim oExcel
Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Dim oBook
Set oBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(src_file)
oBook.Worksheets(worksheet_number).Activate
oBook.SaveAs dest_file, csv_format
oBook.Close False
oExcel.Quit
""";
f = open('ExcelToCsv.vbs','w')
f.write(vbscript.encode('utf-8'))
f.close()
This answer benefited from Convert XLS to CSV on command line and csv & xlsx files import to pandas data frame: speed issue
I used xlsx2csv to virtually convert excel file to csv in memory and this helped cut the read time to about half.
from xlsx2csv import Xlsx2csv
from io import StringIO
import pandas as pd
def read_excel(path: str, sheet_name: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
buffer = StringIO()
Xlsx2csv(path, outputencoding="utf-8", sheet_name=sheet_name).convert(buffer)
buffer.seek(0)
df = pd.read_csv(buffer)
return df
If you have less than 65536 rows (in each sheet) you can try xls (instead of xlsx. In my experience xls is faster than xlsx. It is difficult to compare to csv because it depends on the number of sheets.
Although this is not an ideal solution (xls is a binary old privative format), I have found this is useful if you are working with a lof many sheets, internal formulas with values that are often updated, or for whatever reason you would really like to keep the excel multisheet functionality (instead of csv separated files).
In my experience, Pandas read_excel() works fine with Excel files with multiple sheets. As suggested in Using Pandas to read multiple worksheets, if you assign sheet_name to None it will automatically put every sheet in a Dataframe and it will output a dictionary of Dataframes with the keys of sheet names.
But the reason that it takes time is for where you parse texts in your code. 14MB excel with 5 sheets is not that much. I have a 20.1MB excel file with 46 sheets each one with more than 6000 rows and 17 columns and using read_excel it took like below:
t0 = time.time()
def parse(datestr):
y,m,d = datestr.split("/")
return dt.date(int(y),int(m),int(d))
data = pd.read_excel("DATA (1).xlsx", sheet_name=None, encoding="utf-8", skiprows=1, header=0, parse_dates=[1], date_parser=parse)
t1 = time.time()
print(t1 - t0)
## result: 37.54169297218323 seconds
In code above data is a dictionary of 46 Dataframes.
As others suggested, using read_csv() can help because reading .csv file is faster. But consider that for the fact that .xlsx files use compression, .csv files might be larger and hence, slower to read. But if you wanted to convert your file to comma-separated using python (VBcode is offered by Rich Signel), you can use: Convert xlsx to csv
I know this is old but in case anyone else is looking for an answer that doesn't involve VB. Pandas read_csv() is faster but you don't need a VB script to get a csv file.
Open your Excel file and save as *.csv (comma separated value) format.
Under tools you can select Web Options and under the Encoding tab you can change the encoding to whatever works for your data. I ended up using Windows, Western European because Windows UTF encoding is "special" but there's lots of ways to accomplish the same thing. Then use the encoding argument in pd.read_csv() to specify your encoding.
Encoding options are listed here
I encourage you to do the comparison yourself and see which approach is appropriate in your situation.
For instance, if you are processing a lot of XLSX files and are only going to ever read each one once, you may not want to worry about the CSV conversion. However, if you are going to read the CSVs over and over again, then I would highly recommend saving each of the worksheets in the workbook to a csv once, then read them repeatedly using pd.read_csv().
Below is a simple script that will let you compare Importing XLSX Directly, Converting XLSX to CSV in memory, and Importing CSV. It is based on Jing Xue's answer.
Spoiler alert: If you are going to read the file(s) multiple times, it's going to be faster to convert the XLSX to CSV.
I did some testing with some files I'm working on are here are my results:
5,874 KB xlsx file (29,415 rows, 58 columns)
Elapsed time for [Import XLSX with Pandas]: 0:00:31.75
Elapsed time for [Convert XLSX to CSV in mem]: 0:00:22.19
Elapsed time for [Import CSV file]: 0:00:00.21
********************
202,782 KB xlsx file (990,832 rows, 58 columns)
Elapsed time for [Import XLSX with Pandas]: 0:17:04.31
Elapsed time for [Convert XLSX to CSV in mem]: 0:12:11.74
Elapsed time for [Import CSV file]: 0:00:07.11
YES! the 202MB file really did take only 7 seconds compared to 17 minutes for the XLSX!!!
If you're ready to set up your own test, just open you XLSX in Excel and save one of the worksheets to CSV. For a final solution, you would obviously need to loop through the worksheets to process each one.
You will also need to pip install rich pandas xlsx2csv.
from rich import print
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime
from xlsx2csv import Xlsx2csv
from io import StringIO
def timer(name, startTime = None):
if startTime:
print(f"Timer: Elapsed time for [{name}]: {datetime.now() - startTime}")
else:
startTime = datetime.now()
print(f"Timer: Starting [{name}] at {startTime}")
return startTime
def read_excel(path: str, sheet_name: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
buffer = StringIO()
Xlsx2csv(path, outputencoding="utf-8", sheet_name=sheet_name).convert(buffer)
buffer.seek(0)
df = pd.read_csv(buffer)
return df
xlsxFileName = "MyBig.xlsx"
sheetName = "Sheet1"
csvFileName = "MyBig.csv"
startTime = timer(name="Import XLSX with Pandas")
df = pd.read_excel(xlsxFileName, sheet_name=sheetName)
timer("Import XLSX with Pandas", startTime)
startTime = timer(name="Convert XLSX to CSV first")
df = read_excel(path=xlsxFileName, sheet_name=sheetName)
timer("Convert XLSX to CSV first", startTime)
startTime = timer(name="Import CSV")
df = pd.read_csv(csvFileName)
timer("Import CSV", startTime)
There's no reason to open excel if you're willing to deal with slow conversion once.
Read the data into a dataframe with pd.read_excel()
Dump it into a csv right away with pd.to_csv()
Avoid both excel and windows specific calls. In my case the one-time time hit was worth the hassle. I got a ☕.
I can't use the read_excel method from pandas library in my Ipython note book.
After some test and cleaning in the Excel file, I understood their is a complete column of drawings (or images). When I deleted this column I stop the error message. Does somebody know how to configure read_excel option to collect only dataes? This is my code:
import pandas as pd
import os
# File selection
userfilepath = r'C:\Temp'
filename = "exportCS12.xlsx"
filenameCS12 = os.path.join(userfilepath, filename)
print(filenameCS12)
# workbook upload
df = pd.read_excel(filenameCS12, sheetname='Sheet1')
Pandas import was not working due to a none clean excel file. Problem sovlve with openpyxl, able to navigate in excel only in validated areas.