name: pyexcel-xls
organisation: pyexcel
releases:
- changes:
  - action: Removed
    details:
    - "`#46`: remove the hard pin on xlrd version < 2.0"
  - action: Added
    details:
    - "`#47`: limit support to persist datetime.timedelta. see more details in doc"
  date: 07.10.2021
  version: 0.7.0
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - "lock down xlrd version less than version 2.0, because 2.0+ does not support xlsx read"
  date: 12.12.2020
  version: 0.6.2
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - "Restrict this library to get installed on python 3.6+, because pyexcel-io 0.6.0+ supports only python 3.6+."
  date: 21.10.2020
  version: 0.6.1
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - 'New style xlsx plugins, promoted by pyexcel-io v0.6.2.'
  date: 8.10.2020
  version: 0.6.0
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - "`#35`, include tests"
  date: 29.08.2020
  version: 0.5.9
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - "`pyexcel#151`, read cell error as #N/A."
  date: 22.08.2018
  version: 0.5.8
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - "`pyexcel#54`, Book.datemode attribute of that workbook should be passed always."
  date: 15.03.2018
  version: 0.5.7
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - "`pyexcel#120`, xlwt cannot save a book without any sheet. So, let's raise an exception in this case in order to warn the developers."
  date: 15.03.2018
  version: 0.5.6
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - '`#25`, detect merged  cell in .xls'
  date: 8.11.2017
  version: 0.5.5
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - '`#24`, xlsx format cannot  use skip_hidden_row_and_column. please use pyexcel-xlsx
      instead.'
  date: 2.11.2017
  version: 0.5.4
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - '`#21`, skip hidden rows  and columns under ''skip_hidden_row_and_column'' flag.'
  date: 2.11.2017
  version: 0.5.3
- changes:
  - action: updated
    details:
    - pyexcel `pyexcel#105`, remove gease  from setup_requires, introduced by 0.5.1.
    - remove python2.6 test support
    - update its dependecy on pyexcel-io to 0.5.3
  date: 23.10.2017
  version: 0.5.2
- changes:
  - action: added
    details:
    - '`pyexcel#103`, include LICENSE file  in MANIFEST.in, meaning LICENSE file will
      appear in the released tar ball.'
  date: 20.10.2017
  version: 0.5.1
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#20`, is handled in  pyexcel-io'
    - put dependency on pyexcel-io 0.5.0, which uses cStringIO instead of StringIO.  Hence,
      there will be performance boost in handling files in memory.
  date: 30.08.2017
  version: 0.5.0
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#20`, handle unseekable  stream given by http response.'
  date: 25.08.2017
  version: 0.4.1
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`pyexcel-xlsx#15`, close file handle'
    - pyexcel-io plugin interface now updated to use  `lml <https://github.com/chfw/lml>`_.
  date: 19.06.2017
  version: 0.4.0
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#18`, pass on  encoding_override and others to xlrd.'
  date: 30/05/2017
  version: 0.3.3
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#16`, allow mmap to  be passed as file content'
  date: 18.05.2017
  version: 0.3.2
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#14`, Python 3.6 -  cannot use LOCALE flag with a str pattern'
    - fix its dependency on pyexcel-io 0.3.0
  date: 16.01.2017
  version: 0.3.1
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#13`, alert on empyty  file content'
    - Support pyexcel-io v0.3.0
  date: 22.12.2016
  version: 0.3.0
- changes:
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - '`#10`, To support  generator as member of the incoming two dimensional data'
  date: 20.09.2016
  version: 0.2.3
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - 'support pagination. two pairs: start_row, row_limit and start_column,  column_limit
      help you deal with large files.'
  date: 31.08.2016
  version: 0.2.2
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - '`#9`, `skip_hidden_sheets`  is added. By default, hidden sheets are skipped
      when reading all sheets.  Reading sheet by name or by index are not affected.'
  date: 13.07.2016
  version: 0.2.1
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - By default, `float` will be converted to `int` where fits. `auto_detect_int`,  a
      flag to switch off the autoatic conversion from `float` to `int`.
    - '''library=pyexcel-xls'' was added so as to inform pyexcel to use it instead
      of  other libraries, in the situation where there are more than one plugin for  a
      file type, e.g. xlsm'
  - action: Updated
    details:
    - support the auto-import feature of pyexcel-io 0.2.0
    - xlwt is now used for python 2 implementation while xlwt-future is used for  python
      3
  date: 01.06.2016
  version: 0.2.0
- changes:
  - action: Added
    details:
    - Passing "streaming=True" to get_data, you will get the two dimensional array  as
      a generator
    - Passing "data=your_generator" to save_data is acceptable too.
  date: 17.01.2016
  version: 0.1.0