How to get read excel data into an array with python

Question

In the lab that I work in, we process a lot of data produced by a 96 well plate reader. I\'m trying to write a script that will perform a few calculations and output a bar g

Answer 1

This task is super easy in Pandas these days.

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_excel('file_name_here.xlsx', sheet_name='Sheet1')

or

df = pd.read_csv('file_name_here.csv')

This returns a pandas.DataFrame object which is very powerful for performing operations by column, row, over an entire df, or over individual items with iterrows. Not to mention slicing in different ways.