./textproc/py-xlrd, Python library to extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.0.1nb1, Package name: py310-xlrd-2.0.1nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

xlrd is a library for reading data and formatting information from
Excel files in the historical .xls format.

Warning

This library will no longer read anything other than .xls files. For
alternatives that read newer file formats, please see
http://www.python-excel.org/.

The following are also not supported but will safely and reliably be ignored:

Charts, Macros, Pictures, any other embedded object, including embedded worksheets.
VBA modules
Formulas, but results of formula calculations are extracted.
Comments
Hyperlinks
Autofilters, advanced filters, pivot tables, conditional formatting, data validation

Password-protected files are not supported and cannot be read by this library.


Required to run:
[lang/python310]

Master sites:

Filesize: 97.909 KB

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   2022-01-04 21:55:40 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1595) 
Log message:
*: bump PKGREVISION for egg.mk users

They now have a tool dependency on py-setuptools instead of a DEPENDS
   2021-10-26 13:23:42 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1161) 
Log message:
textproc: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Unfetchable distfiles (fetched conditionally?):
./textproc/convertlit/distinfo clit18src.zip
   2021-10-07 17:02:49 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1162) 
Log message:
textproc: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2021-05-18 13:06:51 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
textproc/py-xlrd: Sync DESCR with upstream

Upstream's current README and the old DESCR had diverged a lot.
Pointed out by Mayuresh.
   2021-04-15 08:44:01 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
py-xlrd: updated to 2.0.1

2.0.1 (11 December 2020)
------------------------
- Use the README as the long description on PyPI.

2.0.0 (11 December 2020)
------------------------
- Remove support for anything other than ``.xls`` files.
- Remove support for ``psyco``.
- Change the default encoding used when no ``CODEPAGE`` record can be found
  from ``ascii`` to ``iso-8859-1``.
- Add support for iterating over :class:`~xlrd.book.Book` objects.
- Add support for item access from :class:`~xlrd.book.Book` objects,
  where integer indices and string sheet names are supported.
- Non-unicode spaces are now stripped from the "last author" information.
- Workbook corruption errors can now be ignored using the
  ``ignore_workbook_corruption`` option to :class:`~xlrd.open_workbook`.
- Handle ``WRITEACCESS`` records with invalid trailing characters.
- Officially support Python 3.8 and 3.9.
   2019-06-05 02:37:43 by David H. Gutteridge | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
py-xlrd: update home page and a detail about minimum Python
   2018-12-15 22:02:58 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
py-xlrd: updated to 1.2.0

1.2.0:
- Added support for Python 3.7.
- Added optional support for defusedxml to help mitigate exploits.
- Automatically convert ~ in file paths to the current user's home
  directory.
- Removed examples directory from the installed package. They are still
  available in the source distribution.
- Fixed time.clock() deprecation warning.
   2016-06-08 19:43:49 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (356) 
Log message:
Switch to MASTER_SITES_PYPI.