def __formatrow__(self, types, values, wanttupledate):
        """ Internal function used to clean up the incoming excel data """
        ##  Data Type Codes:
        ##  EMPTY 0
        ##  TEXT 1 a Unicode string 
        ##  NUMBER 2 float 
        ##  DATE 3 float 
        ##  BOOLEAN 4 int; 1 means TRUE, 0 means FALSE 
        ##  ERROR 5 
        import xlrd
        returnrow = []
        for i in range(len(types)):
            type,value = types[i],values[i]
            if type == 2:
                if value == int(value):
                    value = int(value)
            elif type == 3:
                datetuple = xlrd.xldate_as_tuple(value, self.__book__.datemode)
                if wanttupledate:
                    value = datetuple
                else:
                    # time only no date component
                    if datetuple[0] == 0 and datetuple[1] == 0 and \
                       datetuple[2] == 0: 
                        value = "%02d:%02d:%02d" % datetuple[3:]
                    # date only, no time
                    elif datetuple[3] == 0 and datetuple[4] == 0 and \
                         datetuple[5] == 0:
                        value = "%04d/%02d/%02d" % datetuple[:3]
                    else: # full date
                        value = "%04d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % datetuple
            elif type == 5:
                value = xlrd.error_text_from_code[value]
            returnrow.append(value)
        return returnrow
 Internal function used to clean up the incoming excel data 
recipes/Python/483742_Easy_Cross_Platform_Excel_Parsing/recipe-483742.py