Converting xls files to xlsx using python

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I’ve got loads of 97-2003 Excel xls files i wanna bulk convert to xlsx.

I found the xls2xlsx documentation but can’t seem to get it to work.

I have tried googling the errors and searching but to no avail.

import os

from xls2xlsx import XLS2XLSX


directory = 'C:\Users\Python Scripts\convertXLStoXLSX\'

for filename in os.listdir(directory):

    if filename.endswith(".xls"):
        x2x = XLS2XLSX(filename)
        x2x.to_xlsx(filename)
    else:
        continue

I am getting the error message:

ImportError: cannot import name 'GuessedAtParserWarning' from 'bs4' (C:Userswf5931AppDataLocalContinuumanaconda3libsite-packagesbs4__init__.py)

Asked By: ASG

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Answer 1

use pandas

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel("file.xls")
df.to_excel("file.xlsx")

Answered By: sepideh_ssh

Answer 2

Just including my finished code for future use by others which uses pandas – worked almost instantly

import os
import pandas as pd

directory = 'C:\Users\Documents\Python Scripts\convertXLStoXLSX\'

for filename in os.listdir(directory):

    if filename.endswith(".xls"):
        df = pd.read_excel(filename)
        df.to_excel(filename + ".xlsx")

Answered By: ASG

Converting xls files to xlsx using python

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