Answers for "pandas downloading xls instead of xlsx file"

python pandas save df to xlsx file

import pandas as pd
# Save Dataframe df to output.xlsx in current directory with sheet_name_1
df.to_excel("output.xlsx", sheet_name='Sheet_name_1')

python how to read a xlsx file

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_excel (r'Path where the Excel file is storedFile name.xlsx')
print (df)