Read Excel Table headers with xlwings

Question

How can I use xlwings to read a "table" in excel, into a pandas DataFrame, where the table "headers" become the DataFrame column names?

Every way I have tried to read the table, the header row is always excluded from the read!

Here is what I've tried, where "b" is my xlwings workbook object:

b.sheets['Sheet1'].range('Table1').options(pd.DataFrame)
b.sheets['Sheet1'].range('Table1').options(pd.DataFrame, headers=False)
b.sheets['Sheet1'].range('Table1').options(pd.DataFrame, headers=True)

Answer 1

Hoping this is not the best answer, but I did find I could reference the named range, then .offset(-1).expand('vertical')

Answer 2

Another option is to use the api and Excel's ListObject

import xlwings as xw

wb = xw.books.active
ws = wb.sheets('MySheet')
tbl = ws.api.ListObjects('MyTable') # or .ListObjects(1)
rng = ws.range(tbl.range.address) # get range from table address

df = rng.options(pd.DataFrame, header=True).value # load range to dataframe