Re: [pyxl] xlrd-0.8.0 .xlsx formatting_info=True not implemented

2012-09-02 Thread python-excel
Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Hi, > > As a work-around, you could use the CRAN R package XLConnect, using > RPy or RPy2, to do what you want. IIRC it's based on Java, so it's not > extremely fast. > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XLConnect/vignettes/XLConnect.pdf > This is another package I

Re: [pyxl] xlrd-0.8.0 .xlsx formatting_info=True not implemented

2012-08-31 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
what have the Romans ever done for us? ~~  > > From: "python-ex...@raf.org" >To: python-ex...@googlegroups.com; Python List >Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:57 AM >S

Re: [pyxl] xlrd-0.8.0 .xlsx formatting_info=True not implemented

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Withers
On 30/08/2012 03:57, python-ex...@raf.org wrote: hopefully the intention that xlrd not support formats in xlsx files will change one day into an intention to support them. :-) The intention is there, sadly the time to work on it is not. John Machin would be the person best placed to do the wo

Re: [pyxl] xlrd-0.8.0 .xlsx formatting_info=True not implemented

2012-08-29 Thread python-excel
John Yeung wrote: > > is there any other way to tell how many digits excel would round to > > when displaying a floating point number? that's my only reason for > > needing formatting_info=True. > > I have not personally used it, but OpenPyXL is another option for > working with .xlsx files, and