title: Python parsing XLS with images
body: <p>Have a problem with extracting images from xls files. There a lot of variants to parse xls using python (some libraries I have found there <a href="http://python-excel.org" rel="nofollow">http://python-excel.org</a> - xlrd, xlwt). But have hot found any information about extracting images from xls files without exporting to the other format.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if i parse document with xlrd, it defines a cell with image as an empy str.</p>