From c8e1155996988af703c9f1ae191e5a5c07f5ee6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joris Van den Bossche Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:59:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #39314: 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 a78af82ba4db8..b6d686ee2551f 100644 --- a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst +++ b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst @@ -2834,7 +2834,7 @@ 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,