Escape formulae on export

[matthewhegarty]

There is a potential security flaw where XLSX files can be exported with active formulae (see #257).

This PR adds an optional 'escape' kwarg to the export method which will strip leading '=' characters and disable formulae.

Tests included.

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Merging #540 (080b55a) into master (4363c43) will increase coverage by 0.12%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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[claudep]

Thanks for the patch! Could you please also complete the docs in formats.rst?

[matthewhegarty]

Thanks for the patch! Could you please also complete the docs in formats.rst?

Done. To avoid duplication I added links to the source docstrings.

Also updated requirements.txt to the latest version of 'Sphinx'

[claudep]

That looks very good, thanks!

[claudep]

@hugovk, I let you do the merge if you find it OK.

[hugovk]

Thanks!

[matthewhegarty]

Is there a timeline for releasing this? Sorry to ask but we have a downstream security issue relating to this. Any updates greatly appreciated.

[claudep]

I guess someone has to complete the HISTORY file, but then I think we could release soonish...

[hugovk]

@matthewhegarty If you can make a PR to update HISTORY.md, that would help us release much quicker :)

[matthewhegarty]

#544 👍

[hugovk]

Thank you, now released in 3.4.0! 🚀

• https://pypi.org/project/tablib/3.4.0/