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

Based heavily on the answer by davidovitch (thank you), I have put together a package that reads in a .ods file and returns a DataFrame. It's not a full implementation in pandas itself, such as his PR, but it provides a simple read_ods function that does the job.

You can install it with pip install pandas_ods_reader. It's also possible to specify whether the file contains a header row or not, and to specify custom column names.