How to read Excel files from a stream (not a disk-backed file) in Python?

Question

XLRD is installed and tested:

>>> import xlrd
>>> workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(\'Sample.xls\')

When I read the file through

Answer 1

xlrd does support providing data directly without a filepath, just use the file_contents argument:

xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=fileobj.read())

From the documentation:

file_contents – A string or an mmap.mmap object or some other behave-alike object. If file_contents is supplied, filename will not be used, except (possibly) in messages.