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@chris-b1 chris-b1 commented Dec 2, 2016

@chris-b1 chris-b1 added the IO Excel read_excel, to_excel label Dec 2, 2016
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As an alternative to converters, the type for an entire column can
be specified using the `dtype` keyword, which takes a dictionary
mapping column names to types. To interpret data with
no type inference, use the type `str` or `object`.
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maybe double backticks here for str and object? (ok for dtype two lines above, as this is a keyword)

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Looks good! Feel free to merge when green

@chris-b1 chris-b1 merged commit 588e29d into pandas-dev:master Dec 3, 2016
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ENH: read_excel dtypes and converts
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