Import Excel files using Python

- [Narrator] Next, there are two pieces of data…that must be imported into the database.…These are identifier tables that describe data…in the vehicles and accidents tables.…This information is unusual because…it's an Excel file, not a CSV file.…It needs to be imported to the SQL lite…database using a different process.…This data is in the road accident safety guide XLS file…and if we open that, we'll see that there are several tabs.…The two tabs we are most interested in…is accident severity and vehicle type.…

I'm going to use Python's ability to manipulate…Excel files to complete this task.…Let's take a look at that code.…I've already opened the Python Idle Editor…and am now going to open up the script itself.…So I'll go to file, open, I'll navigate to the…exercise files, chapter three,…and we're going to open up the third import Python script.…Python requires a special library to open up Excel files.…

And, that library may not be installed in your system.…So, let's step through installing the xlrd library.…