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+SUMMARY = "Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files"
+DESCRIPTION = "Extract data from Excel spreadsheets (.xls and .xlsx,\
+ versions 2.0 onwards) on any platform. Pure Python (2.6, 2.7, 3.2+). \
+Strong support for Excel dates. Unicode-aware."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.python-excel.org/"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://PKG-INFO;md5=08bd814936237b6e1355e6370b24b2c1"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b85c9916ac755cad489a9005f5a0d390"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8a21885513e6d915fe33a8ee5fdfa675433b61405ba13e2a69e62ee36828d7e2"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PYTHON_PN}-compression ${PYTHON_PN}-io ${PYTHON_PN}-pprint ${PYTHON_PN}-shell"