title: Skip specific set of columns when reading excel frame - pandas
body: <p>I know beforehand what columns I don't need from an excel file and I'd like to avoid them when reading the file to improve the performance. Something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  df = pd.read_excel('large_excel_file.xlsx', skip_cols=['col_a', 'col_b',...,'col_zz'])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There is nothing related to this in the documentation. is there any workaround for this?</p>