xlrd 0.7.2 released!

[Chris Withers]

Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce the release of xlrd 0.7.2. This release, like 
the xlwt release, is long overdue and has been over 2.5 years in the making!

The highlights:

- All messaging and debug logging is now written to the logfile provided 
to open_workbook.

- Tolerant handling of file with non-standard compound document header

- Tolerant handling of files with extra zero bytes at end of NUMBER record

- Handle mostly-BIFF8 file with BIFF5-7 WINDOWS2 record

- Handle dodgy version 2.x .xls files.

- Added support for HYPERLINK extraction

- Added access to cell notes/comments.

- Enable reading files created by pyXLWriter -- puts BIFF8 MERGEDCELLS 
record in a BIFF5 file.

- Fixed a file-locking issue on Windows when an exception was raised in 
open_workbook() and on_demand was True

- Book objects are now context managers

- Rich text formatting information is now extracted

- Page breaks information is now extracted

- Some improvements in zoom factor handling

- PANE records are now processed

- Some memory and performance enhancements

For a full list of the changes, please see the svn log:

https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk

I've currently only put up .tar.gz sdists, if anyone requires anything 
else, please explain why and I'll be happy to add!

cheers,

Chris

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