The easiest way to convert a spreadsheet to Python dictionary is to use an external library like pandas. This provides very helpful features like to_dict on excel objects. You can use these like −
Example
from pandas import * xls = ExcelFile('my_file.xls') data = xls.parse(xls.sheet_names[0]) print(data.to_dict())
Output
This will give the output −
{'id': 10, 'name': "John"}