On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:01:56 AM UTC-4, Chris Withers wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I'm pleased to announce the release of xlrd 0.8.0: > > > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/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. > > > > Speaking of xlrd 0.7.x, that's now in "requested maintenance only" mode > > ;-) That means, if possible, use 0.8.x. If you have a really good reason > > for sticking with 0.7.x, and you find a bug that you can't work around, > > then please make this clear on the python-ex...@googlegroups.com and > > we'll see what we can do. > > > > If you find any problems, please ask about them on the 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 > > > > -- > > Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting > > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
Congrats! Being able to read Office 2007 files will be very useful. Looking forward to the Python 3 support. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list