To get XLS support XLRD should always be installed

[pombredanne]

despite tablib support for and bundling of xlrd, I could not get XLS import working without installing XLRD separately, which is weird ... but that is likely because tablib in Pypi is so outdated

[bmihelac]

Do you use dev version of tablib?

[pombredanne]

No, I am using the Pypi version of tablib and that may be the issue
The tests on HEAD are failing and Pypi is quite out of date:
https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/pull/101
https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/issues/102

[bmihelac]

I do not see what can we do, except mention the fact that pypi version of tablib does not include xlrd in Installation

[rhunwicks]

For reference, this issue is tracked upstream at https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/issues/167

[jsma]

I've submitted a pull request upstream to de-vendorize xlrd https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/pull/185

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