Prompt user to read/import data from excel file

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I have been struggling to write some code that prompts the user to choose whether they would like to read/import some data from an excel file or not. I don't want to use Pandas or external packages. I need to be able to have a prompt that asks the user if they would like to read data from excel, and based on their response ask them to input the excel file they would like to read from etc. Does anyone have any clues on how to go about this? Bit of a newby. Much appreciated! Thanks.

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I have been struggling to write some code that prompts the user to choose whether they would like to read/import some data from an excel file or not. I don't want to use Pandas or external packages. I need to be able to have a prompt that asks the user if they would like to read data from excel, and based on their response ask them to input the excel file they would like to read from etc. Does anyone have any clues on how to go about this? Bit of a newby. Much appreciated! Thanks.

Posted 18-Jun-21 4:02am

meowtimes3

Updated 18-Jun-21 4:17am

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SeeSharp2 18-Jun-21 10:07am

If you are a newbie then you have a lot of learning to do. However, you can do a simple jquery dialog for the popup to ask a user and then use a file upload control to allow them to select the file. But then there is a lot of code to make this all work.

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2021-06-18T04:17:00

Solution 1

Python

file_name = input('Please enter the file name: ')
if len(file_name) == 0:
    print('OK, you don\'t want to play')
    return
print('Processing the excel file')
# your code goes here

And I also suggest you go to The Python Tutorial — Python 3.7.10 documentation[^].

Posted 18-Jun-21 4:17am

Richard MacCutchan

Updated 18-Jun-21 4:18am

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