How to write a for loop to read in excel files into Python

Question

I have 10 excel workbooks (data1.xlsx ~ data10.xlsx), each of which has multiple sheets. I'd like to write a for loop to read in Q4 tabs for each workbook so that I don't have to write repeating codes like what I have below.

data1 = pd.read_excel("data1.xlsx", sheet_name = 'Q4')
data2 = pd.read_excel("data2.xlsx", sheet_name = 'Q4')
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data9 = pd.read_excel("data9.xlsx", sheet_name = 'Q4')
data10 = pd.read_excel("data10.xlsx", sheet_name = 'Q4')

I want the result of each loop to be assigned to a dataframe name (eg data1, data2, etc.) I've tried the following, but it only gave me one output and was assigned under df_name , not data1 or data2 ...

files = []
filepath = 'C:/Projects/data'
for i in range(1,11):
    df_name = 'data' + str(i)
    df_name = pd.read_excel(filepath+str(i)+'.xlsx', 'Q4')
    

Answer 1

I suggest using a dictionary to store your DataFrames:

files = {f"data{i}": pd.read_excel(f"{filepath}{i}.xlsx", sheet_name="Q4") for i in range(1,11)}

Then you can access data1 by files['data1'] , etc.