How to convert a spreadsheet to Python dictionary?

The easiest way to convert a spreadsheet to Python dictionary is to use an external library like pandas. This provides very helpful features like to_dict on excel objects. You can use these like −

Example

from pandas import *
xls = ExcelFile('my_file.xls')
data = xls.parse(xls.sheet_names[0])
print(data.to_dict())

Output

This will give the output −

{'id': 10, 'name': "John"}