xlrd import issue with Python 2.7

Question

I have an assignment to read excel data in Python. I have Python 2.7 installed. I tried installing xlrd0.8.0 with the following commands in Windows.

C:\\Pyth         


        

Answer 1

Resolving issue with xlrd import in Python 2.7

open this link https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py and save as get-pip.py and copy this file into C:\Python2.7\

C:\Python2.7\python.exe get-pip.py

After this pip is installed in your system now installing xlrd

C:\Python2.7\python.exe -m pip install xlrd

Open python and import xlrd

import xlrd

it will work.