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I'm having a lot of trouble installing xlrd 0.9.2 for python


Can someone give me a guide for morons? I am somewhat out of my depth here. So far I have downloaded xlrd 0.9.2 and tried to follow the readme, but neither I nor ctrl-f can find the installer mentioned.


Solution

  • download

    The current version of xlrd can be found here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd

    extract the folder somewhere

    go to the folder you extracted to ... find setup.py

    open command window (start -> run-> cmd)

    cd into the directory with setup.py

    type: python setup.py install

    you may need setup tools (which can be gotten here https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#installation-instructions)