》Python calculations run in Microsoft’s Cloud No thanks!
That caught my attention too! I'm curious why they would choose this model.
Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
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Re: Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
#12Why does Excel need to run Python calculations in the Cloud?
I think I'll stick to VBA.
Javascript in Excel would be nice.
Even better would be native SQL.
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#13I wish it wasn't solely powered only by Microsoft Cloud and could support python running locally, but regardless I think this will still be huge and single-handedly modernizes Excel by a large margin.
This alone could eliminate the need for websites that just want this sort of data. I can think of a past project at a previous job I did building an analytics website used only by a handful of people internally that could have been just as well served with something like this, had it existed at the time.
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#14I wonder who'll be the first to ship python in a major browser
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#15Wait, didn't they already do this? I'm pretty sure I downloaded an official add-on for this a few years ago.
There was a YC company that did it, maybe a decade ago. I bet someone will remember.
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#16If this is true then it will be amazing and very widely adopted. Pandas in Excel would be cool. Fingers crossed.
I'd be happy if I could just represent integers with more than 15 digits without rounding (e.g. 64-bit primary keys)
64bit can hold 20 digits (decimal), 20 (sortof) 19 completely
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#17If this is true then it will be amazing and very widely adopted. Pandas in Excel would be cool. Fingers crossed.
Why? Libreoffice calc had python for years now and nobody cared:
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/sbasic/python/py...
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#18If this is true then it will be amazing and very widely adopted. Pandas in Excel would be cool. Fingers crossed.
> it will be amazing and very widely adopted.
The calculations in the cloud?
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#19Direct link to announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/in...
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#20Why does Excel need to run Python calculations in the Cloud? I think I'll stick to VBA. Javascript in Excel would be nice. Even better would be native SQL.
Excel has javascript… Google “Officescript in Excel”.
Also, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/resourc...