book = pyExcelerator.parse_xls(filepath)
parsed_dictionary = defaultdict(lambda : '', book[0][1])
number_of_columns = 44
number_of_rows = 500000
result_list = [] * number_of_rows
for i in range(0, number_of_rows):
    ok = False
for h in range(0, number_of_columns):
    item = parsed_dictionary[i, h]
if type(item) is StringType or type(item) is UnicodeType:
    item = item.replace('\t', '').strip()
result_list[i].append(item)
if item != '':
    ok = True
if not ok:
    break
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