Error when opening xls file - IOError: incorrect end of DIFAT

[prasanna-sk]

Not sure if this is a bug. I am not sure if this is a bug. I am trying to extract the data from excel workbook and it seems to open file in MS Office 365.

But, I do get an error when opening an xls file -

IOError: incorrect end of DIFAT

I am not in a position to send the file as it has some confidential info. If there are other diagnostic commands I need to run, I can run them.

It seems to be an old xls (97-2003) file with hidden sheet & a vb macro.

To Reproduce - xls variable has the filename

>>> olefile.isOleFile(xls)
True
>>> ole = olefile.OleFileIO(xls)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/olefile/olefile.py", line 1075, in __init__
    self.open(filename, write_mode=write_mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/olefile/olefile.py", line 1348, in open
    self.loadfat(header)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/olefile/olefile.py", line 1562, in loadfat
    raise IOError('incorrect end of DIFAT')
IOError: incorrect end of DIFAT

Version information:

• OS: Rhel Linux
• OS version: 7.2 - 64 bits
• Python version: 2.7.5
• olefile version: 0.46 (latest)

[decalage2]

OK, could you please run olefile.py from the command line, adding options -c and -d to get more debug information? Thanks.

[prasanna-sk]

Here you go. Thanks.
olefile_debug.txt
olefile_console_debug.txt