xlrd Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files
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Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files xlrd is an open source library that will help developers to easily extract data from new and old Excel spreadsheets on any platform. xlrd is also Unicode-aware and comes with strong support for Excel dates. Here are some key features of "xlrd": · Support for handling dates, and documentation of Excel date problems and how to avoid them. · Unicode aware; correctly handles “compressed” Unicode in modern files; decodes legacy charsets in older files (if Python has the codec). · Extracts all data (including Booleans and error-values) · Extracts named references · Extracts formatting information for cells (number format, font, alignment, borders, backgrounds, protection) and rows/columns (default height/width, etc). Requirements: · Python 2.1 or later

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