Pandas: reading Excel file starting from the row below that with a specific value

Question

Say I have the following Excel file:

    A      B     C
0   -      -     -
1   Start  -     -
2   3      2     4
3   7      8     4
4   11     2     17
         


        

Answer 1

You could use pd.read_excel('C:\Users\MyFolder\MyFile.xlsx', sheetname='Sheet1') as it ignores empty excel cells.

Your DataFrame should then look like this:

    A      B     C
0   Start NaN   NaN
1   3      2     4
2   7      8     4
3   11     2     17

Then drop the first row by using

df.drop([0])

to get

    A      B     C
0   3      2     4
1   7      8     4
2   11     2     17