Force xlsm files to open with pyexcel-xlsx

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`.xlsm` files are like `.xlxs` files but with macros enabled. They store
data in the same XML-based format as `.xlsx` files.

Pyexcel will try to use the xlrd package to parse `.xlsm` files. This
used to work because xlrd used to support reading `.xlsx` files. xlrd
has dropped support for `.xlsx` files in version 2 because of security
concerns. This means that when pyexcel asks xlrd to parse a `.xlsm` file
it causes an error.

This commit adds some branching to force `.xlsm` files to be opened
with pyexcel-xlsx instead, which does support `.xlsx` files.

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Chris Hill-Scott

2022-05-12 15:48:09 +01:00

parent ded87706c7

commit 80854ab2cc

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