pip install xlrd==2.0.1

Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) .xls spreadsheet files

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Over 32.1M downloads in the last 90 days.

Commonly used with xlrd

Based on how often these packages appear together in public requirements.txt files on GitHub.

openpyxl

A Python library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm files

numexpr

Fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy

jdcal

Julian dates from proleptic Gregorian and Julian calendars.

tables

Hierarchical datasets for Python

bokeh

Interactive plots and applications in the browser from Python

patsy

A Python package for describing statistical models and for building design matrices.

XlsxWriter

A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.

bcolz

columnar and compressed data containers.

toolz

List processing tools and functional utilities

bitarray

efficient arrays of booleans -- C extension

cytoolz

Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities

unicodecsv

Python2's stdlib csv module is nice, but it doesn't support unicode. This module is a drop-in replacement which *does*.

numba

compiling Python code using LLVM

multipledispatch

Multiple dispatch

blaze

Blaze

Bottleneck

Fast NumPy array functions written in C

pycosat

bindings to picosat (a SAT solver)

h2o

H2O, Fast Scalable Machine Learning, for python

odo

Data migration utilities

Version usage of xlrd

Proportion of downloaded versions in the last 3 months (only versions over 1%).

1.2.0

48.49%

2.0.1

45.45%

1.1.0

4.19%

1.0.0

1.44%