openpyxl-imagereader-patch

openpyxl patch to support reading of images in .xlsx files

Introduction

This patches the openpyxl Python package, available at https://bitbucket.org/openpyxl/openpyxl/src. The current implementation (2.4.x as of September 15th, 2016) does not support reading images from .xlsx files. (It does support embedding images in cells and writing them, but not reading them.)

This code is derived from a gist written by Sergey Pikhovkin intended to apply the same functionality. However, the original gist was written for openpyxl 2.1.2 and is no longer compatible. Thus, this patch is intended to update the original patch to be compatible with openpyxl 2.4.x.