Show HN: Script Excel with Python

#1

Post by karamazov » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 4:50 PM UTC

Re: Show HN: Script Excel with Python

#2

Post by smortaz » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

This is great guys! We cooked up a similar thing called Pyvot (pivot). It's OSS/Apache - feel free to take/contribute. Cheers, smortaz@microsoft.

#3

Post by adorton » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

Impressive. Would people I share a spreadsheet with need the plugin?

#4

Post by cschmidt » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

Is this an open source project, or are you planning to sell it?

#5

Post by karamazov » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

adorton wrote: post #3

Impressive. Would people I share a spreadsheet with need the plugin?

Yes, they will.

#6

Post by jaxn » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:25 PM UTC

REALLY wish this was available for Mac.

#7

Post by karamazov » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:25 PM UTC

cschmidt wrote: post #4

Is this an open source project, or are you planning to sell it?

It's free for now, but we plan to sell it eventually.

#8

Post by iamdave » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:28 PM UTC

This is awesome! I plan to use this 100%. Sent it to a few other excel power users in my org, thank you for this

#9

Post by karamazov » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:30 PM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #8

This is awesome! I plan to use this 100%. Sent it to a few other excel power users in my org, thank you for this

That's great!

#10

Post by danielalela » Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

niiiice! :) python is definitely better than vba, didn't think of this use for it!