include excel data in your python documentation sphinxcontrib-excel help you present your excel data in various formats inside your sphinx documentation draw charts from your excel data pyexcel-pygal helps you with all charting options and give you charts in svg format pyexcel-echarts draws dgeo charts from pyexcel data and has awesome animations toobut it is under development pyexcel-matplotlib helps you with scientific charts and is under developmement gantt chart visualization for your excel data pyexcel-gantt is specialist renderer for gantt chart sheet the sheet api here is much less powerful than pandas dataframe when the array is of significant size to be honestypandas dataframe is much more powerful and provide rich data manipulation apis when would you consider the sheet api hereif your data manipulation steps are basic and your data volume is not highyou can use them random access to randomly access cell of sheet instancetwo syntax are availablesheet[rowcolumnorsheet[' 'the former syntax is handy when you know the row and column numbers the latter syntax is introduced to help you convert the excel column header such as "axto integer numbers suppose you have the following datayou can get value by reader[ here is the example code showing how you can randomly access cellsheet pyexcel get_sheet(file_name="example xls"sheet content ++---+---+---example ++---+---+--- ++---+---+--- ++---+---+--- ++---+---+---print(sheet[ ] print(sheet[" "](continues on next page new tutorial