How to convert OpenDocument spreadsheets to a pandas DataFrame?

Question

The Python library pandas can read Excel spreadsheets and convert them to a pandas.DataFrame with pandas.read_excel(file) command. Under the hood,

Answer 1

If you only have a few .ods files to read, I would just open it in openoffice and save it as an excel file. If you have a lot of files, you could use the unoconv command in Linux to convert the .ods files to .xls programmatically (with bash)

Then it's really easy to read it in with pd.read_excel('filename.xls')