Can Pandas read and modify a single Excel file worksheet (tab) without modifying the rest of the file?

Question

Many spreadsheets have formulas and formatting that Python tools for reading and writing Excel files cannot faithfully reproduce. That means that any file I want to create p

Answer 1

if you're talking about 'sheets' as 'tabs', then it is possible to modify just one of the tabs by accessing the particular one using the parse(sheet_name) function.

an example is here: Reading an Excel file in python using pandas

to write back to excel, (while controlling the sheets) use the to_excel function, here: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.to_excel.html