Error in reading Excel file from system?
<pre><code> import xlrd
 book = xlrd.open_workbook("File_1.xls")
 sheet = book.sheet_by_index(0)
 print sheet.row_values(0)[0]
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<p>I am trying to read the excel file stored in the system(desktop)the concerned excel sheet has only one sheet, when I ran the code its giving an error :-  </p>

<pre><code> Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:/Python26/readingExlfiles.py", line 2, in &lt;module&gt;
 book = xlrd.open_workbook("File_1.xls")
 File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 449, in open_workbook
 ragged_rows=ragged_rows,
 File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 941, in biff2_8_load
   f = open(filename, open_mode)
 IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'File_1.xls'
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<p>Please help me out with the same.</p>
