How to detect if a cell is empty when reading Excel files using the xlrd library?

Question

I handle Excel files using the functions row_values and col_values:

import xlrd
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook( filename )
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Answer 1

You could be explicit and check that sheet.cell_type(rowno, colno) in (xlrd.XL_CELL_EMPTY, xlrd.XL_CELL_BLANK) but the docs state the value will be u'' where those are the case anyway.

Instead of using row_values, you could also use row(n) which returns a list of Cell objects which have .value and .cell_type attributes.