from xlsx2csv import Xlsx2csv
from io import StringIO
import pandas as pd


def read_excel(path: str, sheet_name: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
    buffer = StringIO()
    Xlsx2csv(path, outputencoding="utf-8", sheet_name=sheet_name).convert(buffer)
    buffer.seek(0)
    df = pd.read_csv(buffer)
    return df