Read Excel 97-2003 files that have a format problem with python

Hallo,

i want to read the content of the following example file with pandas in python. Its a Excel 97-2003 file.

20230714141942.xls

after applying “pandas.read_excel(file)” i first get asked for a engine, after using ‘xlrd’ following Error is raised:

XLRDError: Unsupported format, or corrupt file: Expected BOF record; found b’Time\t P1’

Normaly pandas should open a xls file without the need of an engine, so there is defenitelly a problem with the format.

Thank you for your help!