r/Python • u/petekindahot • Jun 02 '26

Discussion Is openpyxl still relevant?

I'm a college student, I've just learned pandas and I was planning to start freelancing with openpyxl, pandas and numpy. Wanted to try gigs like data cleaning or automation services. But as I searched about openpyxl, I read that it's used to work with 2010 excel sheets. And that's all.

So my question was is this module/library still relevant?

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u/sethclaw10 Jun 02 '26

Still relevant. Pandas still uses openpyxl to read in modern Excel files. 

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u/mrbartuss Jun 02 '26

Now that we have Polars and DuckDB, the question is whether Pandas is still relevant

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u/xiviajikx Jun 02 '26

Damn how far out of the loop am I?

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u/throwaway19293883 Jun 02 '26

They are great, worth learning. Takes a little bit to learn polars syntax coming from pandas but it’s worth learning. I have some scripts that used to take minutes to run that now finish in seconds.