python-xlrd binary package in Ubuntu Xenial amd64

 xlrd is a Python library to Extract data from new and old Microsoft
 Excel spreadsheets. It supports both .xls and .xlsx files (from Excel
 2007).
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 xlrd is a pure Python module and does not require any dependency
 outside of the standard Python distribution.
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 This package contains the Python2 version of xlrd as well as the
 documentation and runxlrd, a small utility to extract data from
 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files.

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