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# pandas.ExcelFile.sheet_names

property ExcelFile.sheet_names

  Names of the sheets in the document.

  This is particularly useful for loading a specific sheet into a DataFrame when you do not know the sheet names beforehand.

  Returns:
    list of str

      List of sheet names in the document.

  See also

  `ExcelFile.parse`

    Parse a sheet into a DataFrame.

  `read_excel`

    Read an Excel file into a pandas DataFrame. If you know the sheet names, it may be easier to specify them directly to read_excel.

  Examples

      >>> file = pd.ExcelFile("myfile.xlsx")
      >>> file.sheet_names
      ["Sheet1", "Sheet2"]