I am pleased to announce a new general release (0.5.2) of xlrd, a Python package for extracting data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
CHANGES: * Book and sheet objects can now be pickled and unpickled. Instead of reading a large spreadsheet multiple times, consider pickling it once and loading the saved pickle; can be much faster. * Now works with Python 2.1. Backporting to Python 2.1 was partially funded by Journyx - provider of timesheet and project accounting solutions (http://journyx.com/) * open_workbook() can be given the contents of a file instead of its name. * Now more tolerant of files written in unexpected ways by 3rd party software. * Speed improvements. Minor bugfixes. MAIN FEATURES OF xlrd: * Library for developers; not a tool for end-users. * Platform-independent pure Python – you don't need Windows, Excel, COM, ... * Handles all Excel file versions back to 3.0. * Strong support for Excel dates. AVAILABLE FROM: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd ENQUIRIES: E-mail to sjmachin at lexicon.net with [xlrd] in the subject. Cheers, John <P><A HREF="http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd";>xlrd 0.5.2</A> - extract data from Excel spreadsheets (17-Mar-06) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
