initial format support

Co-Authored-By: MarcoGorelli <>
Co-Authored-By: FDRocha <>

Author: nikitaved

asv_bench/asv.conf.json

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
         "openpyxl": [],
         "xlsxwriter": [],
         "xlrd": [],
-        "xlwt": [],
         "odfpy": [],
         "jinja2": [],
     },

asv_bench/benchmarks/io/excel.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def _generate_dataframe():
 
 class WriteExcel:
 
-    params = ["openpyxl", "xlsxwriter", "xlwt"]
+    params = ["openpyxl", "xlsxwriter"]
     param_names = ["engine"]
 
     def setup(self, engine):
@@ -68,10 +68,9 @@ def time_write_excel_style(self, engine):
 
 class ReadExcel:
 
-    params = ["xlrd", "openpyxl", "odf"]
+    params = ["openpyxl", "odf"]
     param_names = ["engine"]
     fname_excel = "spreadsheet.xlsx"
-    fname_excel_xls = "spreadsheet.xls"
     fname_odf = "spreadsheet.ods"
 
     def _create_odf(self):
@@ -92,13 +91,10 @@ def setup_cache(self):
         self.df = _generate_dataframe()
 
         self.df.to_excel(self.fname_excel, sheet_name="Sheet1")
-        self.df.to_excel(self.fname_excel_xls, sheet_name="Sheet1")
         self._create_odf()
 
     def time_read_excel(self, engine):
-        if engine == "xlrd":
-            fname = self.fname_excel_xls
-        elif engine == "odf":
+        if engine == "odf":
             fname = self.fname_odf
         else:
             fname = self.fname_excel
@@ -107,9 +103,7 @@ def time_read_excel(self, engine):
 
 class ReadExcelNRows(ReadExcel):
     def time_read_excel(self, engine):
-        if engine == "xlrd":
-            fname = self.fname_excel_xls
-        elif engine == "odf":
+        if engine == "odf":
             fname = self.fname_odf
         else:
             fname = self.fname_excel

ci/code_checks.sh

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ import pandas
 
 blocklist = {'bs4', 'gcsfs', 'html5lib', 'http', 'ipython', 'jinja2', 'hypothesis',
              'lxml', 'matplotlib', 'openpyxl', 'py', 'pytest', 's3fs', 'scipy',
-             'tables', 'urllib.request', 'xlrd', 'xlsxwriter', 'xlwt'}
+             'tables', 'urllib.request', 'xlrd', 'xlsxwriter'}
 
 # GH#28227 for some of these check for top-level modules, while others are
 #  more specific (e.g. urllib.request)

ci/deps/actions-310.yaml

@@ -51,5 +51,4 @@ dependencies:
   - xarray
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
-  - xlwt
   - zstandard

ci/deps/actions-38-downstream_compat.yaml

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ dependencies:
   - xarray
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
-  - xlwt
   - zstandard
 
   # downstream packages

ci/deps/actions-38-minimum_versions.yaml

@@ -53,5 +53,4 @@ dependencies:
   - xarray=0.19.0
   - xlrd=2.0.1
   - xlsxwriter=1.4.3
-  - xlwt=1.3.0
   - zstandard=0.15.2

ci/deps/actions-38.yaml

@@ -50,5 +50,4 @@ dependencies:
   - xarray
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
-  - xlwt
   - zstandard

ci/deps/actions-39.yaml

@@ -51,5 +51,4 @@ dependencies:
   - xarray
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
-  - xlwt
   - zstandard

ci/deps/circle-38-arm64.yaml

@@ -51,5 +51,4 @@ dependencies:
   - xarray
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
-  - xlwt
   - zstandard

doc/source/getting_started/install.rst

@@ -336,7 +336,6 @@ Can be managed as optional_extra with ``pandas[excel]``.
 Dependency                Minimum Version    optional_extra  Notes
 ========================= ================== =============== =============================================================
 xlrd                      2.0.1              excel           Reading Excel
-xlwt                      1.3.0              excel           Writing Excel
 xlsxwriter                1.4.3              excel           Writing Excel
 openpyxl                  3.0.7              excel           Reading / writing for xlsx files
 pyxlsb                    1.0.8              excel           Reading for xlsb files