how can I read each line of a xls file with pausing

Question

I have a xls file on my desktop in mac which has many row (each row consists of a word). what I want is to show each line for 3 minutes in terminal. note that the version of xls

Answer 1

do it in this way on Mac

import time
import pandas as pd
import os
import xlrd
# at first I try to know how many rows and how many columns I have 
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('myfile.xls')
for sheet in workbook.sheets():
    for row in range(sheet.nrows):
        for column in range(sheet.ncols):
            os.system('clear')
            print "value::: ", sheet.cell(row,column).value
            time.sleep(5.5)    # pause 5.5 seconds