ENH: inconsistent naming convention for read_csv and read_excel column selection #4988
Description
read_csv uses the usecols parameter, and the read_excel function uses parse_cols parameter. Both parameter do basically the same thing:
usecols : array-like Return a subset of the columns. Results in much faster parsing time and lower memory usage. parse_cols : int or list, default None * If None then parse all columns, * If int then indicates last column to be parsed * If list of ints then indicates list of column numbers to be parsed * If string then indicates comma separated list of column names and column ranges (e.g. "A:E" or "A,C,E:F") Also maybe supporting the same thing that parse_cols does in usecol wouldn't be so bad?