Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce the release of xlrd 0.9.3:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.3
This release includes the following changes:
- Github issue #49
- Github issue #64 - skip meaningless chunk of 4 zero bytes between two
otherwise-valid BIFF records
- Github issue #61 - fix updating of escapement attribute of Font
objects read from workbooks.
- Implemented Sheet.visibility for xlsx files
- Ignore anchors ($) in cell references
- Dropped support for Python 2.5 and earlier, Python 2.6 is now the
earliest Python release supported
- Read xlsx merged cell elements.
- Read cell comments in .xlsx files
- Added xldate_to_datetime() function to convert from Excel
serial date/time to datetime.datetime object.
Thanks to the following for their contributions to this release:
- John Machin
- Caleb Epstein
- Martin Panter
- John McNamara
- Gunnlaugur Þór Briem
- Stephen Lewis
If you find any problems, please ask about them on the
python-ex...@googlegroups.com list, or submit an issue on GitHub:
https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/issues
Full details of all things Python and Excel related can be found here:
http://www.python-excel.org/
cheers,
Chris
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