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.

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Answer 1

python -m pip install xlrd

For my case I have both python2 and python3 installed, pip install xlrd default install xlrd into the Python3 library (/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xlrd/. By specifying python2 for pip install solved my problem.