openpyxl 1.8.2

A Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files

OpenPyxl is a Python library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm files.

It was born from lack of existing library to read/write natively from Python the new Office Open XML format.

All kudos to the PHPExcel team as openpyxl is based on PHPExcel http://www.phpexcel.net/

== Mailing List ==

Official user list can be found on http://groups.google.com/group/openpyxl-users

== Official documentation ==

The homepage is http://openpyxl.readthedocs.org
You will find:

* every installation methods
* the official documentation
* code examples
* instructions for contributing


1.8.2 (2014-01-17)
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Bugfix #247 - iterable worksheets open too many files
Bugfix #252 - improved handling of lxml
Bugfix #253 - better handling of unique sheetnames


1.8.1 (2014-01-14)
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Bugfix #246


1.8.0 (2014-01-08)
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Compatibility
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Support for Python 2.5 dropped.

Major changes
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* Support conditional formatting
* Support lxml as backend
* Support reading and writing comments
* pytest as testrunner now required
* Improvements in charts: new types, more reliable


Minor changes
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* load_workbook now accepts data_only to allow extracting values only from
formulae. Default is false.
* Images can now be anchored to cells
* Docs updated
* Provisional benchmarking
* Added convenience methods for accessing worksheets and cells by key


1.7.0 (2013-10-31)
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Major changes
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Drops support for Python < 2.5 and last version to support Python 2.5


Compatibility
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Tests run on Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3


Merged pull requests
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#27 Include more metadata
#41 Able to read files with chart sheets
#45 Configurable Worksheet classes
#3 Correct serialisation of Decimal
#36 Preserve VBA macros when reading files
#44 Handle empty oddheader and oddFooter tags
#43 Fixed issue that the reader never set the active sheet
#33 Reader set value and type explicitly and TYPE_ERROR checking
#22 added page breaks, fixed formula serialization
#39 Fix Python 2.6 compatibility
#47 Improvements in styling


Known bugfixes
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#109
#165
#179
#209
#112
#166
#109
#223
#124
#157


Miscellaneous
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Performance improvements in optimised writer

Docs updated