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Really lightweight lib for peeking into xlsx column/row size before you try to open the file with something else

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# xlsxmetadata
Really lightweight lib for peeking into xlsx column/row size before you try to open the file with something else

### setup
```pip install xlsxmetadata```

### reading from file...
```python
from xlsxmetadata.metadata import get_dimensions, get_sheet_names

my_big_file = '/path/to/my/real_big_file.xlsx'

sheet_names = get_sheet_names(my_big_file)
print(sheet_names)

>>> {'test_sheet': 1}

dimensions = get_dimensions('/path/to/my/real_big_workbook.xlsx', 'test_sheet')
print(dimensions['end_column'])

>>> 16834

print(dimensions['end_row'])

>>> 1200000
```

### reading from flask form...
```python
from io import BytesIO
from xlsxmetadata.metadata import get_dimensions, get_sheet_names

my_big_file = request.files.get('my_big_file')

sheet_names = get_sheet_names(BytesIO(my_big_file.read()))
print(sheet_names)

>>> {'test_sheet': 1}

# you will probably have to reset the read-head
my_big_file.seek(0)

dimensions = get_dimensions(BytesIO(my_big_file.read()), 'test_sheet')
print(dimensions['end_column'])

>>> 16834

print(dimensions['end_row'])

>>> 1200000
```

This information is stored as metadata in the first few bytes of `.xlsx` files. For some reason no other libraries (xlrd, openpyxl) seem to give the users access to this data directly.

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