REALLY wish this was available for Mac.
Yep, me too!
Would it be possible to use this as a standalone (command line for instance) and not a plugin?
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#12This seems really cool, but I'm admittedly not familiar with this area. How does this compare or supplement to Excel VBScript?
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#13Nice.
Also see PyXLL (http://pyxll.com/), which lets you write Excel plugins in Python (CPython).
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#14REALLY wish this was available for Mac.
Ask Apple for something equivalent of Windows COM+ and convince them they have a good reason for doing so once they stop laughing, and then you might have it.
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#15That's very clever. However, the ultimate integration of spreadsheet and Python has got to be ResolverOne (http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/) It's a really amazing experience.
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#16I still have a soft spot for VBA, especially in Excel. I wrote a supply-chain management application in Excel+VBA that's still in production today. As comfortable as I am with VBA, I wouldn't mind in the least ditching it for Python, which makes writing routine methods trivial. Great work!
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#17The big question I have is why would I use this instead of a real database. If i am not mistaken excel can hook up to ODBC sources and then I can just script things as I normally would using the database drivers.
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#18Any plans for OS X support?
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#19This seems really cool, but I'm admittedly not familiar with this area. How does this compare or supplement to Excel VBScript?
Our goal is to replace VBScript. We'll have the same basic functionality, but using Python instead of VB, and with access to all of Python's libraries.
It's backwards compatible too - you can run VBA scripts and Python scripts at the same time.