Bug#1017470: python3-pandas: Regression on upgrade from Buster to Bullseye: No data read from certain xlsx file

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

I don't know yet whether this fix can reasonably be applied to 1.1. 
(Debian's policy is that bug fixes in stable should be patches, not 
whole-package backports.)

Workarounds for now:

Using xlrd should be fine in pandas 1.1 (we changed the default early to 
avoid https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976620 , which 
has been fixed), but will stop working for .xlsx files in pandas 1.4+ 
(now in experimental, likely to be in next stable).

Another option is to install the current version of pandas from PyPI 
(security warning: this does *not* automatically update, and may need to 
install more than just pandas):
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
pip3 install --user pandas