Reading xlsx files on a mac in python

Question

I am defining a pandas dataframe by reading an excel file saved locally:

 df_names = pd.read_excel(r'path/NAMES.xlsx', "Sheet1")

I am using pandas. However the above line leads to this error:

raise ValueError("File is not a recognized excel file")

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I realise the fact it is a xlsx file complicates things but i don't really want to use xls files.

Answer 1

If it is a valid xlsx file then then issue could be related to the pandas version; you can try by explicitly using openpyxl. Assuming you have openpyxl installed then please try:

df_names = pd.read_excel(r'path/NAMES.xlsx',sheet_name= "Sheet1", engine='openpyxl')