pydata/pandas — pull request #5394 by jtratner (2013-10-31 00:56:03+00:00)
Title: ENH: read_excel: try converting numeric to int

Adds a coerce_number=True kwarg to read_excel and parse.

All Excel numeric data is stored as floats, so have to convert it specifically.
Changing default because it's suprising to save something with what looks like
a row/column of integers and get a column of floats instead. (especially
because it can lead to annoying Float64Indexes)

Resolves recent ML issue too...