My code:
import xlrd wb = xlrd.open_workbook("Z:\\Data\\Locates\\3.8 locates.xls") sh = wb.sheet_by_index(0) print sh.cell(0,0).value The error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "Z:\Wilson\tradedStockStatus.py", line 18, in wb = xlrd.open_workbook("Z:\\Data\\Locates\\3.8 locates.xls") File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 429, in open_workbook biff_version = bk.getbof(XL_WORKBOOK_GLOBALS) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 1545, in getbof bof_error('Expected BOF record; found %r' % self.mem[savpos:savpos+8]) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 1539, in bof_error raise XLRDError('Unsupported format, or corrupt file: ' + msg) xlrd.biffh.XLRDError: Unsupported format, or corrupt file: Expected BOF record; found 'The file doesn't seem to be corrupted or of a different format. Anything to help find the source of the issue would be great.
回答1:
You say:
The file doesn't seem to be corrupted or of a different format.
However as the error message says, the first 8 bytes of the file are ' ... that is definitely not Excel .xls format. Open it with a text editor (e.g. Notepad) that won't take any notice of the (incorrect) .xls extension and see for yourself.
回答2:
I had a similar problem and it was related to the version. In a python terminal check:
>> import xlrd >> xlrd.__VERSION__
If you have '0.9.0' you can open almost all files. If you have '0.6.0' which was what I found on Ubuntu, you may have problems with newest Excel files. You can download the latest version of xlrd using the Distutils standard.
回答3:
This will happen to some files while also open in Excel.
回答4:
Try to open it with pandas:
import pandas as pd data=pd.read_html(filename.xls)
Or try any other html python parser.
That's not a proper excel file, but an html readable with excel.
回答5:
I found the similar problem when downloading .xls file and opened it using xlrd library. Then I tried out the solution of converting .xls into .xlsx as detailed here: how to convert xls to xlsx
It works like a charm and rather than opening .xls, I am working with .xlsx file now using openpyxl library.
Hope it helps to solve your issue.
回答6:
I just downloaded xlrd, created an excel document (excel 2007) for testing and got the same error (message says 'found PK\x03\x04\x14\x00\x06\x00'). Extension is a xlsx. Tried saving it to an older .xls format and error disappears .....
回答7:
In my case, after opening the file with a text editor as @john-machin suggested, I realized the file is not encrypted as an Excel file is supposed to but it's in the CSV format and was saved as an Excel file. What I did was renamed the file and its extension and used read_csv function instead:
os.rename('sample_file.xls', 'sample_file.csv') csv = pd.read_csv("sample_file.csv", error_bad_lines=False)
回答8:
I meet the same problem.
it lies in the .xls file itself - it looks like an Excel file however it isn't. (see if there's a pop up when you plainly open the .xls from Excel)
sjmachin commented on Jan 19, 2013 from https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/issues/26 helps.
回答9:
I met this problem too.I opened this file by excel and saved it as other formats such as excel 97-2003 and finally I solved this problem
回答10:
I had the same issue. Those old files are formatted like a tab-delimited file. I've been able to open my problem files with read_table; ie df = pd.read_table('trouble_maker.xls').
回答11:
there's nothing wrong with your file. xlrd does not yet support xlsx (excel 2007+) files although it's purported to have supported this for some time.
2-days ago they committed a pre-alpha version to their git which integrates xlsx support. Other forums suggest that you use a DOM parser for xlsx files since the xlsx file type is just a zip archive containing XML. I have not tried this. there is another package with similar functionality as xlrd and this is called openpyxl which you can get from easy_install or pip. I have not tried this either, however, its API is supposed to be similar to xlrd.