TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'and'

I just tried openpyxl to see if would work with my large (2MB) xlsxf file and it failed as follows. I cannot supply the xlsx file as it contains sensitive data for my job.

% pip install openpyxl
Collecting openpyxl
  Downloading openpyxl-2.4.5.tar.gz (180kB)
    100% |################################| 184kB 779kB/s 
Collecting jdcal (from openpyxl)
  Downloading jdcal-1.3.tar.gz
Collecting et_xmlfile (from openpyxl)
  Downloading et_xmlfile-1.0.1.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: jdcal, et-xmlfile, openpyxl
  Running setup.py install for jdcal ... done
  Running setup.py install for et-xmlfile ... done
  Running setup.py install for openpyxl ... done
Successfully installed et-xmlfile-1.0.1 jdcal-1.3 openpyxl-2.4.5


% python
Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:39:47) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import openpyxl
>>> wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('vm-sharing/test.xlsx')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/reader/excel.py", line 238, in load_workbook
    ws_parser.parse()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/reader/worksheet.py", line 129, in parse
    obj = prop[1].from_tree(element)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/descriptors/serialisable.py", line 76, in from_tree
    obj = desc.expected_type.from_tree(el)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/descriptors/serialisable.py", line 76, in from_tree
    obj = desc.expected_type.from_tree(el)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/descriptors/serialisable.py", line 89, in from_tree
    return cls(**attrib)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'and'
>>>

Can't really do much without the file but the exception is coming from the properties of one of the worksheets – should't have any sensitive data in them. You should be able to write a test case by looking at how these tags are parsed.

        properties = {
            '{%s}printOptions' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('print_options', PrintOptions),
            '{%s}pageMargins' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('page_margins', PageMargins),
            '{%s}pageSetup' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('page_setup', PrintPageSetup),
            '{%s}headerFooter' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('HeaderFooter', HeaderFooter),
            '{%s}autoFilter' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('auto_filter', AutoFilter),
            '{%s}dataValidations' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('data_validations', DataValidationList),
            '{%s}sortState' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('sort_state', SortState),
            '{%s}sheetPr' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('sheet_properties', WorksheetProperties),
            '{%s}sheetViews' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('views', SheetViewList),
            '{%s}sheetFormatPr' % SHEET_MAIN_NS: ('sheet_format', SheetFormatProperties)
        }

Thanks. Can you give me some context as to what you want me to do with the above code?

Actually, you can close this. I deleted a bunch of tabs for stuff I was not using and the problem appears to have gone away.

You can close the bug yourself if you like, though it would be nice to know what's causing it. The code is from the WorksheetParser class and has all the tags that are processed by the code in your exception. One of the worksheets that you deleted has some definition that we can't parse properly.

I'll see if I have time to reduce the test case.

Aside: "openpyxl never evaluates formula but it is possible to check the name of a formula" So if I have heavy duty formulas in my spreadsheet, I cannot get the resulting values from openpyxl?

To find the relevant XML you should unzip the XLSX file and search the files called sheet*.xml for text like and="

Regarding formulae: if the file was created by something like Excel then you can use data-only mode to extract the last calculated value for a formula. The formula, is of course, lost.

regarding formulae: thanks!! that's super. (you might want to make that factoid more prominent in the documentation/examples)

Add tests for handling attribute and element names that are Python keywords. Add support for aliasing attributes. Resolves #780

→ <<cset 9778e741f112>>

Looks like this was related to the use of custom filters. Should be fixed now. Would be nice if you test it with a checkout.

Issue #784 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

Didn't want to offend anybody by duplicating this issue here. As this one has the status of "resolved", I thought, maybe there was nobody checking for new comments on this issue #780. That's why I created a "visible" one. Just to see that it was dismissed as "duplocate"...

Anyway, as I still hope for some hints to resolve my issue #784, I'd be glad if a developer could pick me up again. I guess, in order to test the recent package version, I would have to build from source... hope to be able to figure out, how, until the weekend.

Thanks.