Reading date as a string not float from excel using python xlrd
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108428/how-do-i-read-a-date-in-excel-format-in-python">How do I read a date in Excel format in Python?</a>  </p>
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<p>My date can be among any field in an excel file but when I read it using python xlrd its being read as a float. Is there a way to read all the excel cells as string?</p>

<p>I want to prepare a script to generate a file having all the values in excel file separated by a pipe but this date thing is creating problem.</p>
