title: Reading an excel file in pandas
body: <p>I am reading an excel file into pandas, but I am getting the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Out[8]:
  0        \tFLOOD LIGHTS\t
  1        \tFLOOD LIGHTS\t
  2        \tPAR 38 LIGHT\t
  3                \tMILO\t
  4    \tQ-12251-DO1 MILO\t
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I do not want the "\t" in my data.  Here is my pandas read command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  data = pd.read_ex('/home/Desktop/sample.xlsx')
  </code></pre>