i need to read a excel file without changing any date , time format , float format and convert to data-frame. This is working fine if i convert the excel to CSV and read it using read_csv() . eg: import pandas as pd import numpy as np #code for reading excel df=pd.read_excel("605.xlsx",parse_dates=False,sheet_name="Group 1",keep_default_na=False,dtype=str) print("df_excel:") #code for reading csv df1=pd.read_csv("Group 1.csv",parse_dates=False,dtype=str,na_filter = False) print("df_csv:",df1) output: in the above code parse_dates=False is working fine while reading CSV file, but parse_dates=False is not working in read_excel() Expected output: Need the exact excel data into a data-frame without changing the date , time format. Continue reading...