[Python] Getting 'KeyError: "There is no item named 'xl/sharedStrings.xml' in the archive"'...

I am trying to import data into PowerBi using a Python script so that I can schedule it to refresh data at regular basis. I am facing a challenge getting the data from an excel file and receiving the error 'KeyError: "There is no item named 'xl/sharedStrings.xml' in the archive" ' while importing.

When I look into the archive of the xlsx file in the xl folder there is no file sharedString.xml. As there are no strings in the excel. the file opens properly in an excel without any issues but not with python.

import openpyxl
import pandas
import xlrd
import os
globaltrackerdf = pandas.read_excel (r'C:\Users\Documents\Trackers\Tracker-Global Tracker_V2-2022-06-13.xlsx',sheet_name="Sheet1",engine="openpyxl")

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