How to obtain sheet names from XLS files without loading the whole file?
问题 I'm currently using pandas to read an Excel file and present its sheet names to the user, so he can select which sheet he would like to use. The problem is that the files are really big (70 columns x 65k rows), taking up to 14s to load on a notebook (the same data in a CSV file is taking 3s). My code in panda goes like this: xls = pandas.ExcelFile(path) sheets = xls.sheet_names I tried xlrd before, but obtained similar results. This was my code with xlrd: xls = xlrd.open_workbook(path) sheets