read_excel(..., engine="calamine") returns column as all-null if first item is null

[mcrumiller]

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Reproducible example

import polars as pl

pl.DataFrame({
    "a": [1, 2, 3],
    "b": [None, 2, 3],
}).write_excel("test.xlsx")

print(pl.read_excel("test.xlsx", engine="calamine"))

shape: (3, 2)
┌─────┬──────┐
│ a   ┆ b    │
│ --- ┆ ---  │
│ i64 ┆ null │
╞═════╪══════╡
│ 1   ┆ null │
│ 2   ┆ null │
│ 3   ┆ null │
└─────┴──────┘

Log output

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Issue description

When calamine engine is used, if a column has no data in the first row, the entire column is returned as null.

Expected behavior

Should return column values.

Installed versions

--------Version info---------
Polars:               0.20.6
Index type:           UInt32
Platform:             Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
Python:               3.11.7 (tags/v3.11.7:fa7a6f2, Dec  4 2023, 19:24:49) [MSC v.1937 64 bit (AMD64)]

----Optional dependencies----
adbc_driver_manager:  <not installed>
cloudpickle:          <not installed>
connectorx:           0.3.2
deltalake:            <not installed>
fsspec:               <not installed>
gevent:               <not installed>
hvplot:               <not installed>
matplotlib:           3.8.2
numpy:                1.26.2
openpyxl:             3.1.2
pandas:               2.1.4
pyarrow:              14.0.1
pydantic:             <not installed>
pyiceberg:            <not installed>
pyxlsb:               <not installed>
sqlalchemy:           2.0.23
xlsx2csv:             0.8.1
xlsxwriter:           3.1.9

[mcrumiller]

@alexander-beedie

[deanm0000]

I think fastexcel already has a PR to fix this here ToucanToco/fastexcel#164

Either way I think it'd be their issue not polars.

[mcrumiller]

@deanm0000 you're right.