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+ released to Journyx
+ Python 2.1 mmap requires file to be opened for update access. Added
fall-back to read-only access without mmap if 2.1 open fails because
"permission denied".

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+ released to Journyx
+ Now works with Python 2.1. Backporting to Python 2.1 was partially
funded by Journyx - provider of timesheet and project accounting
solutions (http://journyx.com/)
+ open_workbook() can be given the contents of a file instead of its
name. Thanks to Remco Boerma for the suggestion.
+ New module attribute __VERSION__ (as a string; for example "0.5")
+ Minor enhancements to classification of formats as date or not-date.
+ Added warnings about files with inconsistent OLE compound document
structures. Thanks to Roman V. Kiseliov (author of pyExcelerator) for
the tip-off.

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+ released to Laurent T.
+ Book and sheet objects can now be pickled and unpickled. Instead of
reading a large spreadsheet multiple times, consider pickling it once
and loading the saved pickle; can be much faster. Thanks to Laurent
Thioudellet for the enhancement request.
+ Using the mmap module can be turned off. But you would only do that
for benchmarking purposes.
+ Handling NUMBER records has been made faster

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- first public release