title: Reading particular cell value from excelsheet in python
body: <p>I want to get particular cell values from excelsheet in my python script.
  I came across <code>xlrd</code>, <code>xlwt</code>, <code>xlutils</code> modules for reading/writing to/from excelsheet.</p>
  
  <p>I created myfile.xls with hi, hello, how in first column's 3 cells.</p>
  
  <p>sample code :-</p>
  
  <pre><code>import xlrd
  
  workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('myfile.xls')
  worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_name('Sheet1')
  num_rows = worksheet.nrows - 1
  curr_row = -1
  while curr_row &lt; num_rows:
          curr_row += 1
          row = worksheet.row(curr_row)
          print row
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>output :-</p>
  
  <pre><code>[text:u'hi']
  [text:u'hello']
  [text:u'how']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to read specific cell values from excelsheet, can someone suggest me if there is a way to do that?</p>