plugin shopping guide since all pyexcel-io plugins have dropped the support for python versions which are lower than if you want to use any of those python versionsplease use pyexcel-io and its plugins versions that are lower than except csv filesxlsxlsx and ods files are zip of folder containing lot of xml files the dedicated readers for excel files can stream read in order to manage the list of plugins installedyou need to use pip to add or remove plugin when you use virtualenvyou can have different plugins per virtual environment in the situation where you have multiple plugins that does the same thing in your environmentyou need to tell pyexcel which plugin to use per function call for examplepyexcel-ods and pyexcel-odsrand you want to get_array to use pyexcel-odsr you need to append get_arraylibrary='pyexcel-odsr'table other data renderers package name pyexcel-text pyexcelhandsontable pyexcelpygal pyexcelsortable pyexcel-gantt supported file formats write only:rstmediawikihtmllatexgridpipeorgtblplain simple read onlyndjson /wjson handsontable in html dependencies tabulate python versions pypy same as above svg chart handsontable pygal sortable table in html csvtotable pypy same as above gantt chart in html frappegantt except pypysame as above for compatibility tables of pyexcel-io pluginsplease click here pyexcel pyexcel-io table plugin compatibility table pyexcel-text pyexcel-handsontable pyexcel-pygal pyexcel-gantt support the project