>From cb470509de810ea93ac4e576bb0347225b68ad98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:35:18 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xlrd.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-xlrd, python2-xlrd): New variables.
---
 gnu/packages/python.scm | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 408064d..b9ecf3e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Eric Dvorsak <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2015 Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -4880,3 +4881,39 @@ object to help create WSGI responses.")
 
 (define-public python2-webob
   (package-with-python2 python-webob))
+
+(define-public python-xlrd
+  (package
+    (name "python-xlrd")
+    (version "0.9.4")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append
+             "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xlrd/xlrd-"
+             version
+             ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "0wpa55nvidmm5m2qr622dsh3cj46akdk0h3zjgzschcmydck73cf"))))
+    (build-system python-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         ;; current test in setup.py does not work as of 0.9.4,
+         ;; so use nose to run tests instead for now.
+         (replace 'check (lambda _ (zero? (system* "nosetests")))))))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("python-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)
+       ("python-nose" ,python2-nose)))
+    (home-page "http://www.python-excel.org/")
+    (synopsis
+     "Library for extracting data from Microsoft Excel (tm) files")
+    (description
+     "Extract data from Excel spreadsheets (.xls and .xlsx, versions 2.0
+onwards) on any platform.  It is pure Python (2.6, 2.7, 3.2+), has support for
+Excel dates and is Unicode-aware.")
+    (license bsd-3)))
+
+(define-public python2-xlrd
+  (package-with-python2 python-xlrd))
-- 
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