Update Python version requirements

README.html

@@ -18,17 +18,13 @@ <h3>Python package "xlrd"</h3>
 </p>
 <p><b>Version of xlrd</b>: 0.7.1 -- 2009-05-31
 </p>
-<p><b>Versions of Python supported</b>: 2.1 to 2.6.
+<p><b>Versions of Python supported</b>: 2.6-2.7.
 </p>
 <p><b>External modules required</b>:
 </p>
 <dl><dd> The package itself is pure Python with no dependencies on modules or packages
     outside the standard Python distribution.
 </dd>
-<dd> To run the demo script runxlrd.py with
-    Python 2.2 or 2.1 requires the Optik module (version 1.4.1 or later) from
-    http://optik.sourceforge.net/
-</dd>
 </dl>
 <p><b>Versions of Excel supported</b>:
     2004, 2003, XP, 2000, 97, 95, 5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.1, 2.0.
@@ -100,7 +96,6 @@ <h3>Python package "xlrd"</h3>
 </li>
 <li> If PYDIR is your Python installation directory:
     the main files are in PYDIR/Lib/site-packages/xlrd
-    (except for Python 2.1 where they will be in PYDIR/xlrd),
     the docs are in the doc subdirectory,
     and there's a sample script: PYDIR/Scripts/runxlrd.py
 </li>

setup.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def mkargs(**kwargs):
     description = 'Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files',
     long_description = \
         "Extract data from Excel spreadsheets (XLS only, versions 2.0 to 2003) on any platform. " \
-        "Pure Python (2.1 to 2.7). Strong support for Excel dates. Unicode-aware.",
+        "Pure Python (2.6 to 2.7). Strong support for Excel dates. Unicode-aware.",
     platforms = ["Any platform -- don't need Windows"],
     license = 'BSD',
     keywords = ['xls', 'excel', 'spreadsheet', 'workbook'],