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

I've had good luck with pandas read_clipboard. Selecting cells and then copy from excel or opendocument. In python run the following.

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_clipboard()

Pandas will do a good job based on the cells copied.