ExcelFile has non existent argument "kind" in the docstring

[gerigk]

class ExcelFile(object):
    """
    Class for parsing tabular excel sheets into DataFrame objects.
    Uses xlrd for parsing .xls files or openpyxl for .xlsx files.
    See ExcelFile.parse for more documentation

    Parameters
    ----------
    path : string or file-like object
        Path to xls file
    kind : {'xls', 'xlsx', None}, default None
    """
    def __init__(self, path_or_buf):

[changhiskhan]

fixed. thanks!

[wesm]

We might want to be able to explicitly specify the file format? Right now you have to have the extension right

[gerigk]

I found out also, that if it is a buffer it tries to read it as an ".xls" and then silently falls back to ".xlsx" in case of an ImportError.
Since I had only openpyxl installed this resulted in a unicode error when opening a xls buffer.

data = path_or_buf.read()

            try:
                import xlrd
                self.book = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=data)
                self.use_xlsx = False
            except Exception:
                from openpyxl.reader.excel import load_workbook
                buf = py3compat.BytesIO(data)
                self.book = load_workbook(buf, use_iterators=True)

The 'kind' argument would help here.