Python Creating Dictionary from excel data

Question

I want to create a dictionary from the values, i get from excel cells, My code is below,

wb = xlrd.open_workbook(\'foo.xls\')
sh = wb.sheet_by_index(2)   
f         


        

Answer 1

You can use Pandas to do this. Import pandas and Read the excel as a pandas dataframe.

import pandas as pd
file_path = 'path_for_your_input_excel_sheet'
df = pd.read_excel(file_path, encoding='utf-16')

You can use pandas.DataFrame.to_dict to convert a pandas dataframe to a dictionary. Find the documentation for the same here

df.to_dict()

This would give you a dictionary of the excel sheet you read.

Generic Example :

df = pd.DataFrame({'col1': [1, 2],'col2': [0.5, 0.75]},index=['a', 'b'])

>>> df

col1 col2 a 1 0.50 b 2 0.75

>>> df.to_dict()

{'col1': {'a': 1, 'b': 2}, 'col2': {'a': 0.5, 'b': 0.75}}