I can write to but cannot read from Excel using python.

[Emerogork]

I have import xlsxwriter in my code but am not sure what I did to enable that one. (:
Now I want to read from a cell but import xlrd fails. I looked it up but every set of directions fail almost at the first step.

From various web sites, I see the following:
$ pip install xlrd What is the $ prompt?
xlrd-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (md5) I unzipped using 7-zip but don;t know understand how the system will see it. Maybe someone can tell me where to put it....

Am I in t4eh ball park or still out in the parking lot?
Is there a different way to do this?

[buran]

$ is linux specific and means you need to run the command as regular user (not root).
On any OS the command is just pip install xlrd
if you downloaded the whl file you can do also pip install xlrd-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl assuming whl file is in CWD. otherwise you need to specify the full path to the file.

[snippsat]

What is the $ prompt?

As mention is linux specific,the same in Windows is command line cmd.

C:\Windows\System32>cd\

# pip most work like this and you should be using 3.6
C:\>pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from c:\python36\lib\site-packages (python 3.6)

C:\>pip install xlrd
Collecting xlrd
  Using cached xlrd-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: xlrd
Successfully installed xlrd-1.1.0

C:\>python
Python 3.6.2 (v3.6.2:5fd33b5, Jul  8 2017, 04:14:34) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xlrd
>>> xlrd.__VERSION__
'1.1.0'
>>> exit()

C:\>

To make sure it work like this Python 3.6 and pip installation under Windows
Did you read my reply in your last post?