2y ago

Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud

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Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.

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2y ago

Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud

techcommunity.microsoft.com /t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439

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2y ago

Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud

techcommunity.microsoft.com /t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439

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2y ago

Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.

techcommunity.microsoft.com /t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439

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Are they not gonna give a bullshit reason for this? Just straight up give us your data and it's secure on our Azure instances?

Python is slow enough as is, who the fuck thought adding a web request to that was a good idea‽
- Python is fast enough, and generally quite a bit faster than complex spreadsheet formulas. I've seen formulas that can take minutes that Python could do in seconds. A web request isn't going to matter that much.
  
  Web requests are \very\ slow compared to CPU computations, not to mention that time has to be doubled since it's a two-way route.

Seems a bit odd to not have the option to run python locally on my own machine
- It would be very strange if you couldn't just export your data to csv and then run a python script in a shell on it.

Because it was so much easier to send data to the cloud than embed a Python interpreter. 🤦
I wouldn't be surprised if there already is one in the monstrosity that is Excel
- My guess is that they are seeing this as less likely to become a security hole.
  
  Yep. Everyone in the thread asking this question seems clueless to me. Macros are already a threat. I can’t imagine what a shitshow full on python would be.

I can understand the cloud part. they wanted it work on the web and phones. They do know many businesses don't want cloud, so I see a good chance they'll ship it with embedded Python eventually.
- Phones can also run Python and web is already a pretty separate version, I don't see why they can't only make the web version cloud.
  
  Money, what else? Office 365 is a priority and this is an attempt to hasten adoption.
  
  At least iPhone apps usually redirect Python tasks to their servers. That's one reason there are projects like Tensorflow Light.

Someone on lemmy.world pointed out the FOSS xlwings also exists.

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