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ENH Pass kwds from ExcelFile ctr to xlrd.open_workbook. For example, …
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ENH Unit test for setting formatting_info=True when creating ExcelFile
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions pandas/io/excel.py
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Expand Up @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ def __init__(self, path_or_buf, kind=None, **kwds):
self.tmpfile = None

if isinstance(path_or_buf, compat.string_types):
self.book = xlrd.open_workbook(path_or_buf)
self.book = xlrd.open_workbook(path_or_buf, **kwds)
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should these be named kwds? or can open_workbook deal with any?

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xlrd.open_workbook accepts a number of parameters: http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.html#xlrd.open_workbook-function

That being said I saw the kwd argument in the ExcelFile constructor. Currently that kwd is not used which means if the user tries to pass any additional parameters, or misspells them, they are silently dropped.

This change not only allows passing more arguments down to xlrd but also adds an additional runtime check.

else:
data = path_or_buf.read()
self.book = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=data)
self.book = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=data, **kwds)

def parse(self, sheetname, header=0, skiprows=None, skip_footer=0,
index_col=None, parse_cols=None, parse_dates=False,
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