The library is OS independent and can be used from any system.
Here are some key features of "xlrd":
· Support for handling dates, and documentation of Excel date problems and how to avoid them.
· Unicode aware; correctly handles “compressed” Unicode in modern files; decodes legacy charsets in older files (if Python has the codec).
· Extracts all data (including Booleans and error-values)
· Extracts named references
· Extracts formatting information for cells (number format, font, alignment, borders, backgrounds, protection) and rows/columns (default height/width, etc).
Requirements:
· Python 2.1 or higher
