I'm working on a script for abaqus where I have to import data from an excel file to put them into my script. I already downloaded the xlrd module and it work well on python interpreter (IDLE), but when I put the line import xlrd in the script in abaqus PDE an error pop:

no module named xlrd

I think that the problem is that the xlrd module is installed, but abaqus use only default modules when it works, so I have to add the module xlrd for abaqus manually, how can I do this? I'm using python 3.5.x, should I change for an older version 2.7.x? How can I do this ?

You can add path to sys.path where it can find xlrd package.

import sys
sys.path.append('/home/harsh/.virtualenvs/abc_test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/')
import xlrd

Happy Coding.