how to count number of filled cells in each column of excel using python

Question

I have a sheet in Excel which is not structured data as you can see here .

I tried using xlrd package

total_rows=worksheet.nrows
total_cols=worksheet.ncols

but this is giving me the maximum row count for a column. But I need filled cell count for each column. Could anyone suggest solution.

Answer 1

You can try to iterate through every row and check whether the cell is empty or not. You can use this:

import xlrd
book = xlrd.open_workbook('excel.xls')
sheet = book.sheet_by_index(0)

count = 0
for row in range(sheet.nrows):
    for col in sheet.row_values(row):
        if col.strip() != '':
            count += 1