TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'and'

Created originally on Bitbucket by markcharney (Mark Charney)

I just tried openpyxl to see if would work with my large (2MB) xlsxf file and it failed as follows. I cannot supply the xlsx file as it contains sensitive data for my job.

#!shell

% pip install openpyxl
Collecting openpyxl
  Downloading openpyxl-2.4.5.tar.gz (180kB)
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Collecting jdcal (from openpyxl)
  Downloading jdcal-1.3.tar.gz
Collecting et_xmlfile (from openpyxl)
  Downloading et_xmlfile-1.0.1.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: jdcal, et-xmlfile, openpyxl
  Running setup.py install for jdcal ... done
  Running setup.py install for et-xmlfile ... done
  Running setup.py install for openpyxl ... done
Successfully installed et-xmlfile-1.0.1 jdcal-1.3 openpyxl-2.4.5

                                                                 
% python
Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:39:47) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import openpyxl
>>> wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('vm-sharing/test.xlsx')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/reader/excel.py", line 238, in load_workbook
    ws_parser.parse()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/reader/worksheet.py", line 129, in parse
    obj = prop[1].from_tree(element)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/descriptors/serialisable.py", line 76, in from_tree
    obj = desc.expected_type.from_tree(el)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/descriptors/serialisable.py", line 76, in from_tree
    obj = desc.expected_type.from_tree(el)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openpyxl/descriptors/serialisable.py", line 89, in from_tree
    return cls(**attrib)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'and'
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