Can I use python to read Excel files without openpyxl

I have no permission to install openpyxl in my organization,
is there a way to read Excel files in python?
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Turribeach Dataiku DSS Core Designer, Neuron, Dataiku DSS Adv Designer, Registered, Neuron 2023 Posts: 2,531 Neuron
The power of Dataiku lies in leveraging the myriad of Python open source packages to perform the many data ingestion and transformation steps required to get the data ready for machine learning. Without the ability to install Python packages Dataiku becomes pretty much useless. I can not seriously believe that your organisation will invest in creating a Dataiku platform and pay the high cost of Dataiku licenses to then cripple it by not allowing Python packages to be installed. I therefore strongly encourage you to ask around as this does not look right so you may have have been given incorrect information.
Through my long IT career I learnt that many times it is not the actual technical step the problem but finding the right process and/or person that is allowed to perform it. And even in such cases where the technical ask it's new / never seen before it usually takes a few tries to ask the right person for it to be allowed.
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Turribeach Dataiku DSS Core Designer, Neuron, Dataiku DSS Adv Designer, Registered, Neuron 2023 Posts: 2,531 Neuron
There is an alternative. openpyxl is open source. So you can download the package and implement it in code. In my Python 3.11 code environment openpyxl only required 1 additional package dependency: et_xmlfile. So this might not be too hard to replicate in code…