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Extract Excel data by column name

I have an Excel data set:

"id","value","name"
  1  , 10,    "cat"
  2  , 20,    "fish"

In Python:

import xlrd

col1 = "id"
col2 = "value"
col3 = "name"
wb = xlrd.open_workbook("file.xls")
sh = wb.sheet_by_index(0)

result = sh.someMethod((col1,col3))?????

Is there a method that will return the columns by name?

print result
[[1,"cat"],[2,"fish"]]
Solution

  • col_slice might be suitable, for example:

    zip(sh.col_slice(0,1),sh.col_slice(2,1))