XLRD/Python: Reading Excel file into dict with for-loops

Question

I\'m looking to read in an Excel workbook with 15 fields and about 2000 rows, and convert each row to a dictionary in Python. I then want to append each dictionary to a list

Answer 1

from xlrd import open_workbook

dict_list = []
book = open_workbook('forum.xlsx')
sheet = book.sheet_by_index(3)

# read first row for keys  
keys = sheet.row_values(0)

# read the rest rows for values
values = [sheet.row_values(i) for i in range(1, sheet.nrows)]

for value in values:
    dict_list.append(dict(zip(keys, value)))

print dict_list