What kind of magic do I need to get python to talk to Excel xlsm file?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:43 AM Steve <Gronicus at sga.ninja> wrote:
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> >> Requires numpy, dateutil, pytz, setuptools, and optionally numexpr, bottleneck, scipy, matplotlib, pytables, lxml, xarray, blosc, snappy, brotlipy, backports.lzma, statsmodels, sqlalchemy, psycopg2, and whatnot.
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> >It means you need all those things installed before you can install Pandas.
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> If that is the case, then it is just not worth it.  However, I am seeing it more as a poorly constructed sentence.
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> How about:
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> >> Requires numpy, dateutil, pytz, setuptools ,
> and optionally:
> numexpr, bottleneck, scipy, matplotlib, pytables, lxml, xarray, blosc, snappy, brotlipy, backports.lzma, statsmodels, sqlalchemy, psycopg2, and whatnot.
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> Does it suggest that the first four are required and the rest are optional?
> Even then, it is still ambiguous.
>

I believe you are correct, but I usually let pip do all the work.

(But I don't use Windows.)

ChrisA