jazzband / jazzband/tablib

Allow escaping of excel formulas

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Hello,
Packages that leverage this app like django-tablib allows us to export user submitted data.
This exposes a potential security issue where users can add excel formulas to certain exported fields.

Excel allows us to use ``'`` at the beginning of any cell value to have it treated as text only and thus not execute any formula.

I did some digging and looks like this feature is not supported.
I'm interested in contributing this but I'm not 100% sure exactly where, is this something that should go on the packaged dependencies?

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