How to sort Excel sheet using Python

Question

I am using Python 3.4 and xlrd. I want to sort the Excel sheet based on the primary column before processing it. Is there any library to perform this ?

Answer 1

I just wanted to refresh the answer as the Pandas implementation has changed a bit over time. Here's the code that should work now (pandas 1.1.2).

import pandas as pd

xl = pd.ExcelFile("test.xlsx")
df = xl.parse("Sheet1")
df = df.sort_values(by="Header Row")
...

The sort function is now called sort_by and columns is replaced by by.