Convert Excel file to list of dicts with headers as key name for each value with pyopenxl

excel_parser.py

from xlrd import open_workbook


class ExcelParser(object):

    def excel_to_list(self, file_path):
        wb = open_workbook(file_path)
        rows = []

        for sheet in wb.sheets():
            number_of_rows = sheet.nrows
            number_of_cols = sheet.ncols

            # detecting last column
            headers = []

            for i in range(0, number_of_cols):
                headers.append(sheet.cell(0, i).value)

            for row in range(1, number_of_rows):
                iteration = {}
                for i in range(0, number_of_cols):
                    try:
                        value_extracted = sheet.cell(row, i).value
                        iteration[headers[i]] = value_extracted
                    except:
                        pass

                rows.append(iteration)

        return rows