Python Pandas dataframe reading exact specified range in an excel sheet

Question

I have a lot of different table (and other unstructured data in an excel sheet) .. I need to create a dataframe out of range \'A3:D20\' from \'Sheet2\' of Excel sheet \'data

Answer 1

Use the following arguments from pandas read_excel documentation:

• skiprows : list-like
  • Rows to skip at the beginning (0-indexed)
• parse_cols : int or list, default None
  • If None then parse all columns,
  • If int then indicates last column to be parsed
  • If list of ints then indicates list of column numbers to be parsed
  • If string then indicates comma separated list of column names and column ranges (e.g. “A:E” or “A,C,E:F”)

I imagine the call will look like:

df = read_excel(filename, 'Sheet2', skiprows = 2, parse_cols = 'A:D')