In this overview, Leila Gharani explores how integrating Python into Excel redefines how you handle external data. From establishing live connections to datasets using Power Query to using Python ...

Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl() and =PY()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.

Python is a programming language with a variety of uses well beyond data visualization. It’s often used to gather, process and analyze data. It’s flexible and relatively easy to learn .