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xlrd 0.9.3 released!

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Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce the release of xlrd 0.9.3:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.3

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.

Thanks to the following for their contributions to this release:

- John Machin
- Caleb Epstein
- Martin Panter
- John McNamara
- Gunnlaugur Þór Briem
- Stephen Lewis

If you find any problems, please ask about them on the 
python-excel@googlegroups.com 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

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xlrd 0.9.3 released! Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> - 2014-04-10 09:42 +0100

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