title: Pandas command to skip first empty column
body: <p>While reading excel from pandas, I need to skip first column which is completely empty. I tried skip columns but that didn't work. e.g :</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  df=pd.read_excel("c:/test.xlsx", sheet_name='ABC',skiprows=2, skipcolumns=1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Appreciate help!</p>