pandas Pandas IO tools (reading and saving data sets) Read a specific sheet
Example
pd.read_excel('path_to_file.xls', sheetname='Sheet1')
There are many parsing options for read_excel (similar to the options in read_csv.
pd.read_excel('path_to_file.xls',
sheetname='Sheet1', header=[0, 1, 2],
skiprows=3, index_col=0) # etc.
