pandas.read_excel，第一行值

Question

I am trying to get the first row from an excel file using pandas.read_excel. The issue that I have is that Pandas uses the first row values as labels for the data frame. Is there a way of having them - say - in a list?

I have tried to see if there is an option for pandas.read_excel in order to not load the first row as a label but I haven't found anything ( http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_excel.html ).

I know that I can get the same result using other libraries (ie xlrd, openpyxl, ..). However, if it is possible, I would like to use pandas.read_excel, in order to follow the same approach that I have used already for other sheets in the same python file and to better understand the library.

Answer 1

IIUC, if you have an excel spreadsheet called 'Workbook.xlsx' like:

1 2
2 3
3 4

you can read it with:

df = pd.read_excel('Workbook1.xlsx', header=None)

the header=None option let you skip the first line as header keeping it as it is. This returns:

   0  1
0  1  2
1  2  3
2  3  4

Hope that helps.