changed order of arguments

Author: JanLauGe

pandas/io/excel.py

@@ -148,15 +148,16 @@
     this parameter is only necessary for columns stored as TEXT in Excel,
     any numeric columns will automatically be parsed, regardless of display
     format.
+comment : str, default None
+    Comment out remainder of line. Pass a character or characters to this
+    argument to indicate comments in the input file. Any data between the
+    comment string and the end of the current line is ignored.
 skip_footer : int, default 0
     Rows at the end to skip (0-indexed)
 convert_float : boolean, default True
     convert integral floats to int (i.e., 1.0 --> 1). If False, all numeric
     data will be read in as floats: Excel stores all numbers as floats
     internally
-comment : str, default None
-    Comment out remainder of line. Character or characters to indicate comments
-    in the input file. Any data between comment and line end is ignored.
 
 Returns
 -------
@@ -295,9 +296,9 @@ def read_excel(io,
                parse_dates=False,
                date_parser=None,
                thousands=None,
+               comment=None,
                skip_footer=0,
                convert_float=True,
-               comment=None,
                **kwds):
 
     # Can't use _deprecate_kwarg since sheetname=None has a special meaning
@@ -329,9 +330,9 @@ def read_excel(io,
         parse_dates=parse_dates,
         date_parser=date_parser,
         thousands=thousands,
+        comment=comment,
         skip_footer=skip_footer,
         convert_float=convert_float,
-        comment=comment,
         **kwds)
 
 
@@ -412,9 +413,9 @@ def parse(self,
               parse_dates=False,
               date_parser=None,
               thousands=None,
+              comment=None,
               skip_footer=0,
               convert_float=True,
-              comment=None,
               **kwds):
         """
         Parse specified sheet(s) into a DataFrame
@@ -438,9 +439,9 @@ def parse(self,
                                  parse_dates=parse_dates,
                                  date_parser=date_parser,
                                  thousands=thousands,
+                                 comment=comment,
                                  skip_footer=skip_footer,
                                  convert_float=convert_float,
-                                 comment=comment,
                                  **kwds)
 
     def _should_parse(self, i, usecols):
@@ -493,9 +494,9 @@ def _parse_excel(self,
                      parse_dates=False,
                      date_parser=None,
                      thousands=None,
+                     comment=None,
                      skip_footer=0,
                      convert_float=True,
-                     comment=None,
                      **kwds):
 
         skipfooter = kwds.pop('skipfooter', None)
@@ -672,8 +673,8 @@ def _parse_cell(cell_contents, cell_typ):
                                     parse_dates=parse_dates,
                                     date_parser=date_parser,
                                     thousands=thousands,
-                                    skipfooter=skip_footer,
                                     comment=comment,
+                                    skipfooter=skip_footer,
                                     **kwds)
 
                 output[asheetname] = parser.read(nrows=nrows)