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Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel. A public preview of the feature is available today, allowing Excel users to manipulate and analyze data from Python.

You won’t need to install any additional software or set up an add-on to access the functionality, as Python integration in Excel will be part of Excel’s built-in connectors and Power Query. Microsoft is also adding a new PY function that allows Python data to be exposed within the grid of an Excel spreadsheet. Through a partnership with Anaconda, an enterprise Python repository, popular Python libraries like pandas, statsmodels, and Matplotlib will be available in Excel.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure exactly. Maybe it is one reason why they are pushing an online container. I guess then then it can have its own issues of dependency hell. At least with the container approach, everything either works or it is broken, and there is no having to verify which versions of Excel are installed to make the spreadsheet run.

I doubt the end user would have control over package versions, but I had not gotten around to playing with it yet.