How to read hidden tab of excel workbook in python?

Question

There are 3 different tabs in the workbook I am trying to read via python workbook.xlsm: x, y, z (z is hidden in excel).

import pandas as pd

file=f'S:\filelocation\...\workbook.xlsm'
ws=pd.ExcelFile(file)
ds=pd.read_excel(ws,'z',index=0).fillna(0)

this code returns "ValueError: 'z' is not in list" as z is a hidden tab. "XLRDError: No sheet named <'z'>"

How do I go around this problem?

Answer 1

By default pandas will read all sheets. Probably it may be ' Sheet 3 'instead of 'sheet 3' (s caps)

import pandas as pd

xls = pd.ExcelFile('excel.xlsx')

sheets = xls.book.sheets()
print(sheets)

Then check the visibility of each sheet for sheet in sheets: print(sheet.name, sheet.visibility)

Hope this helps.