Python Creating Dictionary from excel data

Question

I want to create a dictionary from the values, i get from excel cells, My code is below,

wb = xlrd.open_workbook('foo.xls')
sh = wb.sheet_by_index(2)   
for i in range(138):
    cell_value_class = sh.cell(i,2).value
    cell_value_id = sh.cell(i,0).value

and I want to create a dictionary, like below, that consists of the values coming from the excel cells;

{'class1': 1, 'class2': 3, 'class3': 4, 'classN':N}

Any idea on how I can create this dictionary?

Answer 1

or you can try pandas

from pandas import *
xls = ExcelFile('path_to_file.xls')
df = xls.parse(xls.sheet_names[0])
print df.to_dict()