> > First of all, there is no xlrd/openpyxl/etc equivalent which can enable > > reading data into a DataFrame. > > That dosen't make any sense , any programming langauge can be used to write > excel reader. Your mentioned lib only read XLS files.
what I mentioned is exactly libraries which can **READ** XLS/XLSX, then the pandas-like DataFrame library can use the libraries to get/read data At least for me, I have to read both XLS and XLSX into pandas for advanced processing for 5 years till now.
