How to open excel file in Polars dataframe?

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I am a python pandas user but recently found about polars dataframe and it seems quite promising and blazingly fast. I am not able to find a way to open an excel file in polars. Polars is happily reading csv, json, etc. but not excel.

I am extensive user of excel files in pandas and I want to try using polars. I have many sheets in excel that pandas automatically read. How can I do same with polars?

What am I missing?

Asked By: Rahil

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Answer 1

This is more of a workaround than a real answer, but you can read it into pandas and then convert it to a polars dataframe.

import polars as pl
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel(...)
df_pl = pl.DataFrame(df)

You could, however, make a feature request to the Apache Arrow community to support excel files.

Answered By: Moriarty Snarly

Answer 2

Polars now has a read_excel method, as of this PR!

https://pola-rs.github.io/polars/py-polars/html/reference/api/polars.read_excel.html

You should be able to just do:

import polars as pl
df = pl.read_excel("file.xlsx")

Answered By: daviewales

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