pandas read_excel with multiindex 和 parse_date； 如何？

Question

I am trying to use pandas read_excel to read an excel file with two header rows, and a column which contains dates. I'm trying to use the parse_dates feature to specify the date column to parse, but I'm running into some trouble, code is basically;

dateColNms= [('start_date', '(*)Start')]
df = pd.read_excel(fileName,  sheet_name = sheetNm, skiprows=0, header= [0,1], parse_dates = dateColNms)

The code throws an error;

KeyError: '(*)Start'

I've tried variants of specifying the date column names, but none seem to work. Anyone have any pointers? Thanks, Weh.

Answer 1

It appears that you do not have a column with this name '(*)Start'. Try reading excel file with parse_date='start_date' to confirm.

Answer 2

Thank you for your reply. I did try using that before posting my question and it works as expected. Below is a snapshot of the specific header column. Regards, Weh

header snapshot