That's what Cell
objects look like:
>>> sheet.row(0)
[text:u'RED', text:u'RED', empty:'']
>>> sheet.row(0)[0]
text:u'RED'
>>> type(sheet.row(0)[0])
<class 'xlrd.sheet.Cell'>
You can get at the wrapped values in a few ways:
>>> sheet.row(0)[0].value
u'RED'
>>> sheet.row_values(0)
[u'RED', u'RED', '']
and remember you can access cells without going via row
:
>>> sheet.cell(0,0).value
u'RED'