Bug#1031701: python3-pandas: Pandas requires version '2.0.1' or newer of 'xlrd'

[Christopher Jones]

Hi,

Sadly they really are .xls files rather than the more slightly more sane .xlsx.

Thanks!

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Chris

> On 20 Feb 2023, at 22:39, Rebecca N. Palmer <rebecca_palmer at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> Is the file you're trying to open .xlsx or .xls?  Do you have python3-openpyxl installed?  If .xlsx and no, try installing it.
> 
> (python3-)xlrd 2.0+ can only open .xls files, not .xlsx.  Hence, pandas 1.5+ read_excel() always uses (python3-)openpyxl for .xlsx files. python3-pandas already Recommends python3-openpyxl.  (This intentionally isn't a hard Depends because pandas can be used on other data formats without it, but the error message probably should point to openpyxl not xlrd.)