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How to read all excel files under a directory as a Pandas DataFrame ?
To read all excel files in a directory, use the Glob module and the read_excel() method.
Let’s say the following are our excel files in a directory −
Sales1.xlsx
Sales2.xlsx
At first, set the path where all the excel files are located. Get the excel files and read them using glob −
path = "C:\Users\amit_\Desktop\" filenames = glob.glob(path + "\*.xlsx") print('File names:', filenames)
Next, use the for loop to iterate and read all the excels files in a specific directory. We are also using read_excel() −
for file in filenames: print("Reading file = ",file) print(pd.read_excel(file))
Example
Following is the complete code −
import pandas as pd import glob # getting excel files from Directory Desktop path = "C:\Users\amit_\Desktop\" # read all the files with extension .xlsx i.e. excel filenames = glob.glob(path + "\*.xlsx") print('File names:', filenames) # for loop to iterate all excel files for file in filenames: # reading excel files print("Reading file = ",file) print(pd.read_excel(file))
Output
This will produce the following output −
File names:['C:\Users\amit_\Desktop\Sales1.xlsx','C:\Users\amit_\Desktop\Sales2.xlsx'] Reading file = C:\Users\amit_\Desktop\Sales1.xlsx Car Place UnitsSold 0 Audi Bangalore 80 1 Porsche Mumbai 110 2 RollsRoyce Pune 100 Reading file = C:\Users\amit_\Desktop\Sales2.xlsx Car Place UnitsSold 0 BMW Delhi 95 1 Mercedes Hyderabad 80 2 Lamborgini Chandigarh 80
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