Python讀寫excel的工具庫很多，比如最耳熟能詳的xlrd、xlwt，xlutils，openpyxl等。其中xlrd和xlwt庫通常配合使用，一個用於讀，一個用於寫excel。xlutils結合xlrd可以達到修改excel文件目的。openpyxl可以對excel文件同時進行讀寫操作。

而說到數據預處理，pandas就體現除了它的強大之處，並且它還支持可讀寫多種文檔格式，其中就包括對excel的讀寫。本文重點就是介紹pandas對excel數據集的預處理。

機器學習常用的模型對數據輸入都是有要求的，多數機器學習算法最基本的要求是訓練數據要轉換成數值格式。當然，也有像決策樹算法這種不需要轉換為數值的算法，這裏不做特例討論。

pandas讀取excel文件的函數是pandas.read_excel()，主要參數包括：

io : 讀取的excel文檔地址，

string, path object (pathlib.Path or py._path.local.LocalPath),

file-like object, pandas ExcelFile, or xlrd workbook. The string could be a URL. Valid URL schemes include http, ftp, s3, and file. For file URLs, a host is expected. For instance, a local file could be file://localhost/path/to/workbook.xlsx

sheet_name : 讀取的excel指定的sheet頁

string, int, mixed list of strings/ints, or None, default 0

Strings are used for sheet names, Integers are used in zero-indexed sheet positions.

Lists of strings/integers are used to request multiple sheets.

Specify None to get all sheets.

str|int -> DataFrame is returned. list|None -> Dict of DataFrames is returned, with keys representing sheets.

Available Cases

• Defaults to 0 -> 1st sheet as a DataFrame
• 1 -> 2nd sheet as a DataFrame
• “Sheet1” -> 1st sheet as a DataFrame
• [0,1,”Sheet5”] -> 1st, 2nd & 5th sheet as a dictionary of DataFrames
• None -> All sheets as a dictionary of DataFrames

header : 設置讀取的excel第一行是否作為列名稱

int, list of ints, default 0

Row (0-indexed) to use for the column labels of the parsed DataFrame. If a list of integers is passed those row positions will be combined into a MultiIndex. Use None if there is no header.

names :設置每列的名稱，數組形式參數

　　　array-like, default None

List of column names to use. If file contains no header row, then you should explicitly pass header=None

index_col :設置讀取的excel第一列是否作為行名稱

　　　int, list of ints, default None

Column (0-indexed) to use as the row labels of the DataFrame. Pass None if there is no such column. If a list is passed, those columns will be combined into a MultiIndex. If a subset of data is selected with usecols, index_col is based on the subset.

usecols :執行需要讀取的數據列，通常載入的excel包含不需要的列

　　　　int or list, default None

• If None then parse all columns,
• If int then indicates last column to be parsed
• If list of ints then indicates list of column numbers to be parsed
• If string then indicates comma separated list of Excel column letters and column ranges (e.g. “A:E” or “A,C,E:F”). Ranges are inclusive of both sides.

下滿是一些pandas讀取excel數據的示例：

將數據集寫入excel文件：

>>> df_out = pd.DataFrame([(‘string1‘, 1),
...                        (‘string2‘, 2),
...                        (‘string3‘, 3)],
...                       columns=[‘Name‘, ‘Value‘])
>>> df_out
      Name  Value
0  string1      1
1  string2      2
2  string3      3
>>> df_out.to_excel(‘tmp.xlsx‘)

讀取excel文件：

>>> pd.read_excel(‘tmp.xlsx‘)
      Name  Value
0  string1      1
1  string2      2
2  string3      3

參數index_col and header 都設置為None表示不讀取excel的第一行和第一列作為標題和默認索引：

>>> pd.read_excel(‘tmp.xlsx‘, index_col=None, header=None)
     0        1      2
0  NaN     Name  Value
1  0.0  string1      1
2  1.0  string2      2
3  2.0  string3      3

甚至可以專門制定列的格式：

>>> pd.read_excel(‘tmp.xlsx‘, dtype={‘Name‘:str, ‘Value‘:float})
      Name  Value
0  string1    1.0
1  string2    2.0
2  string3    3.0

下面是綜合示例：讀取text.xlsx文件的sheet1頁，僅載入D:F列的數據。這裏F列是類別標簽，需要類別1和類別2轉換為數字，應用於機器學習的輸入建模。

import pandas as pd

def reader(path,sheet):
    return pd.read_excel(path, sheet_name=sheet, usecols=‘D:F‘)
    
trainrd = reader(‘text.xlsx‘,‘sheet1‘)
trainrd.head(5)  #查看前5行數據
trainrd[‘x‘]=0  #新建一列x
trainrd.loc[trainrd[‘類別‘]==‘類別1‘,‘x‘]=0 #將類別列的文字轉換為數字
trainrd.loc[trainrd[‘類別‘]==‘類別2‘,‘x‘]=1

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