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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:27:01 -0400
Subject: Re: [pyxl] xlrd-0.8.0 .xlsx formatting_info=True not imlemented
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@gmail.com>
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> is there any other way to tell how many digits excel would round to
> when displaying a floating point number? that's my only reason for
> needing formatting_info=True.

I have not personally used it, but OpenPyXL is another option for
working with .xlsx files, and it might provide the formatting info you
need:

  http://packages.python.org/openpyxl/index.html
  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl/1.5.8

John Y.