Microsoft just announced the release of a public preview of Python in Excel, which would allow users to add Python code directly into a spreadsheet ... into cells using the new =PY function ...

With Python in Excel, users will be able to type Python code directly into an Excel cell. The Python calculations will run on Microsoft’s cloud servers and be delivered back to the Excel sheet.

This is in part for security purposes; Microsoft says Python in Excel is secured through use of isolated containers, with the code running in a hypervisor in Azure. Online workbooks are also ...

If you’re decent in Python (or aspire ... this public preview of Python in Excel will allow spreadsheet tinkerers to “manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries ...

Not a lot of thought goes into the average spreadsheet ... with that data using the most popular data science tools today, including Python, Pandas, SQL, JavaScript and Excel formulas.” ...

“Talk to any analyst or financial modeler and they’ll tell you that Excel just doesn’t cut ... Neptyne is different in that it packs a Python-based spreadsheet engine, Python being the ...