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Comment by morkalork | Hacker News Reader

I feel like if you're asking how to shove Python into a spreadsheet app, you've made a mistake somewhere in your process and should reconsider everything.

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Walk us through your hypothesis. People solve problems in various ways, and workflows can change. Having more options can be useful and lead to new solutions.

Unfortunately, main character syndrome can't be cured with talk therapy.

Do you even know what that is or do you just parrot insults you've seen others use?

I feel like you've made a mistake somewhere in your process and should reconsider everything.

What do you mean? How is it worse than spreadsheet specific languages, like VBA or even in-cell formulas in say, Excel?

Microsoft offers Python for Excel for quite some time now [1]. Seems like a natural fit, when you are used to working in spreadsheets and want to add the low code machine learning capabilities that Python offers.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/python-in-exce...

It doesn't run locally.

I'm in the process of ripping gsheets out of some internal processes, and the pain they are causing me are immense, so I understand the sentiment of this.

However. If those sheets hadn't existed earlier on, I might not have a job at all because they business wouldn't have been able to easily/cheaply solve the problems that they did

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