read_excel does not raise error with wrong keyword arg · Issue #17994 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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For example:

pd.read_excel('file_name.xlsx',sheet='mysheet')

does not raise any error. The right parameter name is "sheetname" . If "sheet" is passed it defaults to the first sheet and no error is raised.

sheetname and sheet are very similar and easy to confuse.

One might think that it is reading the sheet passed as argument when in fact it is another one.

I would like to suggest for errors to be raised if unexpected args are passed.