{"id":5358,"date":"2014-03-30T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/30\/problem-about-xlrd-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:03:13","slug":"problem-about-xlrd-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/30\/problem-about-xlrd-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"problem about xlrd-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c17dd9cf3e2322be19639e96da9f3eb3?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nMakoto<br \/>\npython xls cjk xlrd hindi<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/scienceoss.com\/read-excel-files-from-python\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1051From the above link, I use this utility to read an xls file. If the xls contains different language characters like Chinese or Hindi, it does not output the words correctly .Is there a work around for this?After Googling I found this:import xlrddef upload_xls(dir,file,request):try:global msgglobal row_numrow_num = []header_arr = []global file_pathfile_path = dir#reader = csv.reader(open(file), delimiter=&#8217;#&#8217;, quotecha<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bece3200807a5f75cba79073ad940c8b?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\naddy<br \/>\npython xlrd<br \/>\nI am using xlrd to read cell values from excel sheets. My code follows, it was working fine before but don&#8217;t know what changed in xlrd package, I am getting the error &#8220;TypeError: open_workbook() got an unexpected keyword argument &#8216;on_demand'&#8221;from xlrd import open_workbook bench = open_workbook(&#8216;excelsheet.xls&#8217;,on_demand=True) for name in bench.sheet_names():sheetnew = bench.sheet_by_name(name)for i in range(0, 13):for cell in sheetnew.col(i):print cell.valuebench.unload_sheet(name)<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff08a94fe2e7a6ed3b2efbd70510ad9e?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nLucasS<br \/>\npython hyperlink xlrd openpyxl<br \/>\nI have been looking at mostly the xlrd and openpyxl libraries for Excel file manipulation. However, xlrd currently does not support formatting_info=True for .xlsx files, so I can not use the xlrd hyperlink_map function. So I turned to openpyxl, but have also had no luck extracting a hyperlink from an excel file with it. Test code below (the test file contains a simple hyperlink to google with hyperlink text set to &#8220;test&#8221;):import openpyxlwb = openpyxl.load_workbook(&#8216;testFile.xlsx&#8217;)ws = wb.get_she<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e7ff85bc3e90315bbe1ab0f4beb8b48?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nbforcer<br \/>\npython xlrd<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to get a data management program running so I can rearrange some data for the company I work for using Python. I don&#8217;t really have any experience with Python, but I do with java.http:\/\/www.simplistix.co.uk\/presentations\/python-excel.pdfI found this website that talks about using xlrd and xlwt. I ran xlrd-0.7.1.win32.exe so the api is installed. But even when I try to get the simple script running, it can&#8217;t find the open_workbook function:&#8221;Undefined variable from import: open_workbook&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Web site is in building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makoto python xls cjk xlrd hindi http:\/\/scienceoss.com\/read-excel-files-from-python\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1051From the above link, I use this utility to read an xls file. If the xls contains different language characters like Chinese or Hindi, it does not output the words correctly .Is there a work around for this?After Googling I found this:import xlrddef upload_xls(dir,file,request):try:global msgglobal row_numrow_num = []header_arr = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}