Reading an Excel spreadsheet

MS Office is arguably the most common office suite software, making its formats pretty much standard. MS Excel is probably the most common spreadsheet application and the Excel format is the most common spreadsheet format, mirrored by many other spreadsheet applications.

In this recipe, we'll see how to obtain information from an Excel spreadsheet using the openpyxl module in Python.

Getting ready

We will use the openpyxl module. We should install the module, adding it to our requirements.txt file as follows:

$ echo "openpyxl==3.0.3" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

In the GitHub repository, there's an Excel spreadsheet named movies.xlsx that contains information on the top 10 movies by attendance. The file can be found here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Automation-Cookbook-Second-Edition/blob/master/Chapter06/movies.xlsx.

The source of the information can be found at...