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Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think it'd actually be better than just importing your excel files to pandas or something though? If you've set up your own interpreter that doesn't seem out of your skillset.

[โ€“] tetelestia 9 points 1 year ago

The ability to share the work with non technical co-workers could be huge. You might be able to do everything with pandas, but Jim in sales is too busy casting staplers in jello to learn how to set up a python environment