pandas.read_excel parameter “sheet_name” not working

Question

According to the doc, pandas.read_excel has a parameter sheet_name that allows specifying which sheet is read. But when I am trying to read the second

Answer 1

You can try to use pd.ExcelFile:

xls = pd.ExcelFile('path_to_file.xls')
df1 = pd.read_excel(xls, 'Sheet1')
df2 = pd.read_excel(xls, 'Sheet2')