ImportError: No module named 'xlrd'

Posted on May 22, 2022

Question

I am currently using PyCharm with Python version 3.4.3 for this particular project.

This PyCharm previously had Python2.7, and I upgraded to 3.4.3.

I am trying to fetch data from an Excel file using Pandas.

Here is my code:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_excel(“File.xls”, “Sheet1”) print (df)

When I ran this code, I am getting this error.

ImportError: No module named 'xlrd'

I searched Stackoverflow and found some suggestions: I tried with

pip install xlrd

But, when I did that, the message says

"Requirement already satisfied: xlrd in ./anaconda2/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages"

Any suggestion?

Answer

I had the same problem. I went to the terminal (Using Linux), and typed

sudo pip3 install xlrd

Then I imported xlrd in python and used the same code:

df = pd.read_excel("File.xlsx", "Sheet1")
print (df)

It worked for me!!