On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:42:04PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> The package description for python-xlwt says:
>
>       module for reading/writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files
> [...]
>       Xlwt is a fork of the unmaintained pyExcelerator.
>
> I wanted to grab some data out of old .xls files and was a little wary
> of pyExcelerator's age, so that sounded very useful.  Unfortunately:
>
>       $ dpkg -L python-xlwt | grep xls2cvs
>       $
>
> I can't seem to find a parse_xls function, either.  How about this
> patch?

Hello Jonathan,

your observation is correct, thanks for your work. I'll apply your
patch (you may also do it if you have access to DPMT's subversion).


Kind regards,
Jan Dittberner

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