Congrats guys love this stuff have been using it for a couple of months. The people who work on the Excel team were really impressed when I demoed it to them. Best of luck!
DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
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#12Awesome work guys.
Re: DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
#13Congrats guys love this stuff have been using it for a couple of months. The people who work on the Excel team were really impressed when I demoed it to them. Best of luck!
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#14Great job guys! I'd love to know bit more about the exact benefits of using Python and a few simple examples of how to use it... then again, I am just a casual excel user so I am likely not the right audience
Re: DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
#15Great job guys! I'd love to know bit more about the exact benefits of using Python and a few simple examples of how to use it... then again, I am just a casual excel user so I am likely not the right audience
Thanks! We have some basic examples up on our blog. A good one is blackjack in Excel [1] - it shows off some of the versatility of Python as compared to VBA, like the ability to run a script in the background and have it respond to user actions.
[1] https://datanitro.com/blog/2012/07/31/Interactive-Spreadshee...
Re: DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
#16Please take my money if you port VBA on top of your Python runtime. And take even more money if said embedded Python runtime is available on Openoffice as well.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360454
Re: DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
#17Oh wow, YC!! I'm sure the product would be awesome. Let me check out the link.
Re: DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
#18Nice work. Some piece of feedback: documentation is lacking any information on how to interact with VBA functionality/classes that you don't have your wrappers for. E.g. how do I work with creating/opening/interacting with other workbooks?
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#19Re: DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel
#20Please take my money if you port VBA on top of your Python runtime. And take even more money if said embedded Python runtime is available on Openoffice as well. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360454
BTW, I'm not so sure Python in the right choice for this integration.
Whitespace sensitivity is (arguably) a nice developer mind trick, however the target market for VBA are non-developers, who want to google for stuff, copy paste and get on with it. Which means, you cannot make assumptions about things like editors honoring whitespace, as well as the cognitive processes to rely on spacing etc.
This is why I strongly believe Python is the wrong language for this - but some language is definitely needed (Lua ? Javascript? Ruby?)