How to get sheet names using openpyxl in Python?

In this article, we will show you how to get all the sheet names found in an excel file using python openpyxl library.

Assume we have taken an excel file with the name sampleTutorialsPoint.xlsx containing multiple sheets with some random data. We will return all the sheet names found in a given excel file using the sheetnames attribute.

sampleTutorialsPoint.xlsx

firstSheet

SheetTwo

3rdsheet

Algorithm (Steps)

Following are the Algorithm/steps to be followed to perform the desired task −

• Use the import keyword, to import the openpyxl module (Openpyxl is a Python package for interacting with and managing Excel files. Excel 2010 and later files with the xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm extensions are supported. Data scientists use Openpyxl for data analysis, data copying, data mining, drawing charts, styling sheets, formula addition, and other operations)

pip install openpyxl

• Create a variable to store the path of the input excel file.

• To create/load a workbook object, pass the input excel file to the openpyxl module's load_workbook() function (loads a workbook).

• By applying the sheetnames attribute to the workbook, you obtain a list of all the sheetnames.

• Traverse in the sheetNames List using the for loop and print the corresponding sheetNames.

Example

The following program prints all the sheet names found in an input excel file −

# importing openpyxl module
import openpyxl

# input excel file path
inputExcelFile ="sampleTutorialsPoint.xlsx"

# creating or loading an excel workbook
newWorkbook = openpyxl.load_workbook(inputExcelFile)

# printing all the sheetnames in an excel file using sheetnames attribute
print('The Sheet names of the given excel file: ')

# Getting the sheetnames as a list using the sheetnames attribute
sheetNames=newWorkbook.sheetnames

# Traversing in the sheetNames list
for name in sheetNames:
   print(name)

Output

On executing, the above program will generate the following output −

The Sheet names of the given excel file:
firstSheet
SheetTwo
3rdsheet

In our program, we used a sample excel file with dummy data. The excel file comprises a lot of sheets. By applying the sheetnames attribute to the workbook, we get a list of all the sheet names. Then we go through the list one by one, printing the corresponding sheetnames.

Conclusion

We learned how to use the openpyxl module to create a workbook from an excel file. We also learned how to extract the sheetnames of an excel file using the sheetnames attribute and how to display the list's contents one by one.