title: How to convert OpenDocument spreadsheets to a pandas DataFrame?
body: <p>The Python library <a href="/questions/tagged/pandas" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;pandas&#39;" rel="tag">pandas</a> can read Excel spreadsheets and convert them to a <code>pandas.DataFrame</code> with <code>pandas.read_excel(file)</code> command. Under the hood, it uses <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd" rel="noreferrer">xlrd</a> library which <a href="https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/blob/fcfdb721abe650c0b25d8a874dc7314e9eb8dc59/xlrd/__init__.py#L146" rel="noreferrer">does not support</a> ods files.</p>
  
  <p>Is there an equivalent of <code>pandas.read_excel</code> for ods files? If not, how can I do the same for an Open Document Formatted spreadsheet (ods file)? ODF is used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice.</p>