ENH: Allow passing read_only, data_only and keep_links arguments to openpyxl using engine_kwargs

Previously it was not possible to override the default values for
`openpyxl.reader.excel.load_workbook`'s `read_only`, `data_only` and `keep_links`
arguments (see #55027).

Now these options can be changed via `engine_kwargs`.

Closes #55027

Author: dweindl

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.0.rst

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :func:`tseries.api.guess_datetime_format` is now part of the public API (:issue:`54727`)
 - :meth:`ExtensionArray._explode` interface method added to allow extension type implementations of the ``explode`` method (:issue:`54833`)
 - :meth:`ExtensionArray.duplicated` added to allow extension type implementations of the ``duplicated`` method (:issue:`55255`)
+- Allow passing ``read_only``, ``data_only`` and ``keep_links`` arguments to openpyxl using ``engine_kwargs`` of :func:`read_excel` (:issue:`55027`)
 - DataFrame.apply now allows the usage of numba (via ``engine="numba"``) to JIT compile the passed function, allowing for potential speedups (:issue:`54666`)
 - Implement masked algorithms for :meth:`Series.value_counts` (:issue:`54984`)
 

pandas/io/excel/_openpyxl.py

@@ -567,11 +567,15 @@ def load_workbook(
     ) -> Workbook:
         from openpyxl import load_workbook
 
+        if engine_kwargs is None:
+            engine_kwargs = {}
+
+        engine_kwargs.setdefault("read_only", True)
+        engine_kwargs.setdefault("data_only", True)
+        engine_kwargs.setdefault("keep_links", False)
+
         return load_workbook(
             filepath_or_buffer,
-            read_only=True,
-            data_only=True,
-            keep_links=False,
             **engine_kwargs,
         )
 

pandas/tests/io/excel/test_openpyxl.py

@@ -130,6 +130,21 @@ def test_engine_kwargs_append_data_only(ext, data_only, expected):
             DataFrame().to_excel(writer, sheet_name="Sheet2")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("kwarg_name", ["read_only", "data_only"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("kwarg_value", [True, False])
+def test_engine_kwargs_append_reader(datapath, ext, kwarg_name, kwarg_value):
+    # GH 55027
+    # test that `read_only` and `data_only` can be passed to
+    #  `openpyxl.reader.excel.load_workbook` via `engine_kwargs`
+    from pandas.io.excel._openpyxl import OpenpyxlReader
+
+    filename = datapath("io", "data", "excel", "test1" + ext)
+    with contextlib.closing(
+        OpenpyxlReader(filename, engine_kwargs={kwarg_name: kwarg_value})
+    ) as reader:
+        assert getattr(reader.book, kwarg_name) == kwarg_value
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "mode,expected", [("w", ["baz"]), ("a", ["foo", "bar", "baz"])]
 )