title: decimal option in pd.read_excel() deprecated?
body: <p>Until recently I used</p>
  <pre><code>pd.read_excel(&quot;afile.xslx&quot;, decimal=',')
  </code></pre>
  <p>with a decimal option, which allows it to parse European dates very easily.</p>
  <p>I updated pandas to version 1.1.3 today and it doesn't accept the option &quot;decimal = &quot; anymore. Is this option deprecated and if so, what is a good way to import numbers that are stored as text in excel with &quot;,&quot; as decimal point, for example &quot;11,3&quot; ?</p>