I was surprised to hear pandas doesn't support ods but does support Excel, but then I remembered just how ubiquitous Office is and how little people think about the issues. I guess Excel was a higher priority. :-/
I did find this ticket (although I'm you already found this). https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/2311
I did find this ticket (although I'm you already found this). https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/2311