Merge multiple xls files

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import os, pandas as pd # filenames excel_names = [] for filename in os.listdir('<Dir path'): if filename.endswith('.xls'): excel_names.append(filename) excels = [] for name in excel_names: try: excels.append(pd.ExcelFile(os.path.join('', name))) except IndexError: print(name) # turn them into dataframes frames = [x.parse(x.sheet_names[0], header=None,index_col=None) for x in excels] # delete the first row for all frames except the first # i.e. remove the header row -- assumes it's the first frames[1:] = [df[1:] for df in frames[1:]] # concatenate them.. combined = pd.concat(frames) # write it out combined.to_excel("c.xlsx", header=False, index=False)