Pandas AttributeError: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'concat'

[Sameer33]

Dears

I am trying to merge multiple excel files into a single file with Python, but I get an error and I can't fix it.


My Code is

import os
import pandas as pd
cwd = os.path.abspath('') 
files = os.listdir(cwd)  
folder = r"C:\Users\Sameer\Downloads\Sales"

## Method 1 gets the first sheet of a given file
df = pd.DataFrame()
for file in files:
    if file.endswith('.xlsx'):
        df = df.append(pd.read_excel(file), ignore_index=True) 
df.head() 
df.to_excel('total_sales.xlsx')



## Method 2 gets all sheets of a given file
df_total = pd.DataFrame()
for file in files:                         # loop through Excel files
    if file.endswith('.xlsx'):
        excel_file = pd.ExcelFile(file)
        sheets = excel_file.sheet_names
        for sheet in sheets:               # loop through sheets inside an Excel file
            df = excel_file.parse(sheet_name = sheet)
            df_total = df_total.append(df)
df_total.to_excel('combined_file.xlsx')

Error:
C:\Users\Sameer\PycharmProjects\merage\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:\Users\Sameer\PycharmProjects\merage\main.py 
C:\Users\Sameer\PycharmProjects\merage\main.py:11: FutureWarning: The frame.append method is deprecated and will be removed from pandas in a future version. Use pandas.concat instead.
  df = df.append(pd.read_excel(file), ignore_index=True)
C:\Users\Sameer\PycharmProjects\merage\main.py:11: FutureWarning: The frame.append method is deprecated and will be removed from pandas in a future version. Use pandas.concat instead.
  df = df.append(pd.read_excel(file), ignore_index=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Sameer\PycharmProjects\merage\main.py", line 24, in <module>
    df_total = df_total.concat(df)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Sameer\PycharmProjects\merage\venv\Lib\site-packages\pandas\core\generic.py", line 5902, in __getattr__
    return object.__getattribute__(self, name)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'concat'

Yoriz write Feb-17-2023, 03:24 PM:
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[Yoriz]

The error line 24

df_total = df_total.concat(df)

does not match your posted code line 24

df = excel_file.parse(sheet_name = sheet)

neither does the next line

df_total = df_total.append(df)

DataFrame does not have a concat method
Pandas has a concat function

pandas.concat(objs, *, axis=0, join='outer', ignore_index=False, keys=None, levels=None, names=None, verify_integrity=False, sort=False, copy=True)

Concatenate pandas objects along a particular axis.

Allows optional set logic along the other axes.

Can also add a layer of hierarchical indexing on the concatenation axis, which may be useful if the labels are the same (or overlapping) on the passed axis number.

[deanhystad]

In your next post you will compose a meaningful topic that describes your question, not "I need help!!!!". I usually ignore posts with meaningless topics like "I need help", "What is wrong", "Python problem". "Error concatenating dataframes" would be a good topic for this thread.

concat is a function in pandas, just like read_excel(). concat() is not a method of DataFrame. You would concat df and df_total like this.

df_total = pd.concat((df_total, df))

Pandas append is depreciated. Do not use it. Instead of this:

cwd = os.path.abspath('') 
files = os.listdir(cwd)

df = pd.DataFrame()
for file in files:
    if file.endswith('.xlsx'):
        df = df.append(pd.read_excel(file), ignore_index=True) 

Use something like this:

import pandas as pd
from pathlib import Path

files = Path('.').glob("*.xlsx")
df = pd.concat((pd.read_excel(file) for file in files))
print(df)

I think pathlib is far superior to using os tools.

[Sameer33]

pandas.concat(objs, *, axis=0, join='outer', ignore_index=False, keys=None, levels=None, names=None, verify_integrity=False, sort=False, copy=True)

Thanks to you

Can you, however, write the entire correct code?

I'm still learning the Python programming language.

[deanhystad]

You won't learn by having others write code for you. I am confident that this is within your abilities. If you cannot make it work after having put in some good effort, come back and post what you have.

[Sameer33]

Thank you all very much for your assistance.