Python Creating Dictionary from excel data

or you can try pandas

from pandas import *
xls = ExcelFile('path_to_file.xls')
df = xls.parse(xls.sheet_names[0])
print df.to_dict()

This script allows you to transform an excel data table to a list of dictionaries:

import xlrd

workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('foo.xls')
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook('foo.xls', on_demand = True)
worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_index(0)
first_row = [] # The row where we stock the name of the column
for col in range(worksheet.ncols):
    first_row.append( worksheet.cell_value(0,col) )
# transform the workbook to a list of dictionaries
data =[]
for row in range(1, worksheet.nrows):
    elm = {}
    for col in range(worksheet.ncols):
        elm[first_row[col]]=worksheet.cell_value(row,col)
    data.append(elm)
print data

d = {}
wb = xlrd.open_workbook('foo.xls')
sh = wb.sheet_by_index(2)   
for i in range(138):
    cell_value_class = sh.cell(i,2).value
    cell_value_id = sh.cell(i,0).value
    d[cell_value_class] = cell_value_id