Chunksize Keyword Of Read_excel Is Not Implemented

In version 0.16.1 the chunksize argument was available. See: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.16.1/generated/pandas.ExcelFile.parse.html But in latest version it's no

Solution 1:

As EdChum explained in the comment, this feature was removed in 0.17.0. Chris gave below reason for the same in the comment:

there's no super-compelling reason; the main idea was to match up with api of to_excel, i.e. the "ExcelFileWrapper" (ExcelFile, ExcelWriter) doesn't have any pandas-specific functionality, instead you pass it into the io functions (read_excel, to_excel).

I did update the docs to cover that specific example. edit: although it may be hard to see in the diff - rendered below.

Source: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/11198

I still wonder if there's any alternate way to read excel in chunks?