xlrd 1.0.0 released!

[derek]

Gmail and the Gmail Digest only ever show the 0.9.4 tag - not sure if this 
a big issue or not (but I know I would like to the 1.0.0 tag to be proudly 
displayed!)

On Friday, 3 June 2016 03:57:35 UTC+2, Chris Withers wrote:
>
> Ugh, and once again, this time with a corrected title... 
>
>
> On 02/06/2016 18:56, Chris Withers wrote: 
> > 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... at googlegroups.com <javascript:> 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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