[IronPython] Import xlrd

[John Machin]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> It seems like the simple answer is no – that version of IronPython is 
> too old and has a bug which prevents xlrd from working.  The ASP.NET 
> Futures package may have a recent enough version that it works.
> 
>  
> 
> Using ASP.NET futures it should be as simple as doing a 
> sys.path.append(‘location_of_xlrd’) then import xlrd and continue 
> normally from there.
> 

Dino, to cater for the possibility that xlrd imports CPython modules 
that are not supported by IronPython, would be safer to add the Cpython 
Lib directory to sys.path also?

Alternatively: xlrd uses "# coding: cp1252" only for "copyright" and 
"trademark" symbols -- these could be ripped out.

Over to you, Praveen -- if you can demonstrate that you can write a 
minimal aspx.py that imports a minimal_no_coding_declaration.py module 
successfully, I'll ship you a version of xlrd with no "# coding: cp1252" 
and no non-ASCII characters in the source files.

Cheers,
John