Fix for parsing of merged cells containing a single cell reference in xlsx files.
Fix for “invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘true’” when reading some xlsx files.
Make xldate_as_datetime available to import direct from xlrd.
Build universal wheels.
Sphinx documentation.
Document the problem with XML vulnerabilities in xlsx files and mitigation measures.
Fix NameError on has_defaults is not defined.
Some whitespace and code style tweaks.
Make example in README compatible with both Python 2 and 3.
Add default value for cells containing errors that causeed parsing of some xlsx files to fail.
Add Python 3.6 to the list of supported Python versions, drop 3.3 and 2.6.
Use generator expressions to avoid unnecessary lists in memory.
Document unicode encoding used in Excel files from Excel 97 onwards.
Report hyperlink errors in R1C1 syntax.
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package cabocha: missing distfile cabocha-0.68.tar.bz2
Package convertlit: missing distfile clit18src.zip
Package php-enchant: missing distfile php-enchant/enchant-1.1.0.tgz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
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.
0.8.0:
This release finally lands the support for both .xls and .xlsx files.
Many thanks to John Machin for all his work on making this happen.
Opening of .xlsx files is seamless, just use xlrd as you did before and
it all should "just work".
xlrd 0.8.0 is also the first release that that targets Python 2.6 and
2.7, but no Python 3 just yet. Python 2.5 and below may work but are not
supported. If you need to use Python 2.5 or earlier, please stick to
xlrd 0.7.x.
0.7.9:
This release fixes an annoying merge bug on my part that resulted in a
"NameError: global name 'BYTES_X00' is not defined" error where opening
certain Excel files.
0.7.8:
This release features the following changes:
- Compatibility with Python 2.1 and 2.2 is restored.
- Fix for github issue #7: assertion error when reading file with
xlwt-written bitmap. The assertion is now ignored and a warning logged
if verbosity > 0.
- superfluous zero bytes at end of xls OBJECT records are now ignored.
0.7.7.
This release features the following changes:
- Google Spreadsheet doesn't write the undefined-contents byte at the
end of a NOTE record. Excel doesn't care. Now xlrd doesn't care either.
- Version information is now stored in a .py file, hopefully keeping
py2exe and other freeze tools happy.
(0.7.5, 0.7.6 ...fixes packaging issues in 0.7.4...)
0.7.4.
This release features the following changes:
- Fixed a bug where xlrd was silently truncating long text formula results
- Avoid parsing STYLE records when formatting_info=False
- More tolerance of out-of-spec files.
- Minor performance improvements.
