Microsoft is adding the Python programming language to Microsoft Excel, allowing users to create powerful functions for analyzing and manipulating data.

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.

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When you want to run a Python file from Excel/VBA, the basic idea I've used successfully in the past (on Windows machines) is to write some VBA that calls a shell/command line interpreter and tells it ...