NOT able to use Xlrd module in python

Question

Question: i M not able to use xlrd module though i have installed the same???

Error obtained :

Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "D:\xlrd_1.py", line 1, in <module> 
    import xlrd 
  File "D:\Python31\lib\xlrd\__init__.py", line 345 
    u"Consolidate_Area": u"\x00", 
                      ^ 
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Code :

import xlrd
print ("hi")

Some more description:

1. I m using python 3.1,
2. I have installed xlrd-0.7.1.win32.exe (md5) taken from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.7.1 .
3. able to see the xlrd package in python\\Lib\\Site-packages
4. tried copying to include file also which didnt work.

Need help on this..searched stackoverflow for the same problem as well as else where i didnt find answer so posting the same

Appreciate for any help on the same

Answer 1

You are using Python 3. But the XLRD library you are using is written in Python 2! (I wonder you succeeded in installing it)

Try to use the package xlrd3 for Python 3