xlrd number of rows in worksheet (was: Re: Pre-defining an action to take when an expected error occurs)

[John Machin]

Tempo wrote:
> It worked. Those two functions (usefulness_of_cells &
> number_of_good_rows) seem to work flawlessly...knock on wood. I have
> run a number of different Excel spreadsheets through the functions, and
> so far the functions have a 100% acuracy rating. The acuracy rating is
> based on the functions' returned number of cells containing text,
> excluding a space as text,  against the actual, hand counted number of
> cells with text.

So your worksheet(s) did have rows at the end with cells with spaces in
them?

> Thank you John Machin for all of your help. I am using
> these two functions, with your name tagged to them both. Let me know if
> that's a problem. Thank you again.

Not a problem; like I said, I'll put those functions in the next
release as examples.

Cheers,
John