[CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

Tue Jan 28 22:43:21 UTC 2014
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:37 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Larry Martell wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python
>>> in CentOS 6?
>>
>> I believe xlrd does.:
>>
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2
>
> That's 0.9.2. I just installed the latest package from the usual repos,
> and it's  python-xlrd-0.6.1-10.el6.noarch, and my user reports that
> doesn't work. Suprises me, that being from Excel 2007, and Libre Office
> reads it fine. I gave that suggestion to him as a workaround - import into
> LibreOffice, and export, but he's trying to automate this. I did see what
> seems to be a perl package, but he's working in python.

I was able to install 0.9.2 with:

pip install xlrd