From b7f5d64d901e0d1ea0ed1afb060dd68aa68e3c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joris Van den Bossche Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:29:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: clarify in which version the excel engine default changed --- doc/source/user_guide/io.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst index 8c7e01dd999d3..d6934a3ca2a6c 100644 --- a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst +++ b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst @@ -2853,7 +2853,7 @@ See the :ref:`cookbook` for some advanced strategies. The `xlrd `__ package is now only for reading old-style ``.xls`` files. - Previously, the default argument ``engine=None`` to :func:`~pandas.read_excel` + Before pandas 1.2.0, the default argument ``engine=None`` to :func:`~pandas.read_excel` would result in using the ``xlrd`` engine in many cases, including new Excel 2007+ (``.xlsx``) files. If `openpyxl `__ is installed,