xlrd 0.9.4 released!

[Chris Withers]

Hi All,

Well, I've finally called it and tagged current master of xlrd as 1.0.0:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/1.0.0

This release includes the following changes since the last release:

- Official support, such as it is, is now for 2.6, 2.7, 3.3+

- Fixes a bug in looking up non-lowercase sheet filenames by ensuring 
that the sheet targets are transformed the same way as the 
component_names dict keys.

- Fixes a bug for ragged_rows=False when merged cells increases the 
number of columns in the sheet. This requires all rows to be extended to 
ensure equal row lengths that match the number of columns in the sheet.

- Fixes to enable reading of SAP-generated .xls files.

- support BIFF4 files with missing FORMAT records.

- support files with missing WINDOW2 record.

- Empty cells are now always unicode strings, they were a bytestring on 
Python2 and a unicode string on Python3.

- Fix for <cell> inlineStr attribute without <si> child.

- Fix for a zoom of None causes problems on Python 3.

- Fix parsing of bad dimensions.

- Fix xlsx sheet->comments relationship.

Thanks to the following for their contributions to this release:

- Lars-Erik Hannelius
- Deshi Xiao
- Stratos Moro
- Volker Diels-Grabsch
- John McNamara
- Ville Skyttä
- Patrick Fuller
- Dragon Dave McKee
- Gunnlaugur Þór Briem

If you find any problems, please ask about them on the 
python-excel at 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/

NB: If you would like to become the maintainer of xlwt, please get in 
touch! Neither myself nor John Machin have much time to drive things 
forward nowadays, hence the year or so between each release...

cheers,

Chris

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