Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps

Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by montenegrohugo on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:27AM (#18166783)

Does anyone have any current info on native Python support in Excel? I recall Microsoft announcing they would offer this at some point in the future. I would really really prefer it to VBA.

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by MagnumOpus on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:33AM (#18166820)

> Microsoft announcing they would offer this at some point in the future

No, the ran a consultation asking whether there is interest, got overwhelming support for it, but have not commented on it since.

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by setquk on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:01PM (#18168595)

That's because it's not in line with their strategy of telling everyone what they're having and they'll have to lump it.

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by shakna on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:47AM (#18166906)

In February this year, they said:

> Please know this survey is used to help influence various topics – both on Python as well as other related topics that the comments started to bleed into. Given the passion, I want to be clear this remains an area of exploration for us, without any specific timeline.

However, we haven't heard anything since, but that kind of timeline wouldn't be unexpected for a feature of this scale - they'd be unlikely to announce anything until the project is at least near-finished, if they're working on it.

[0] https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-...

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by cm2187 on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:31AM (#18166808)

I believe they canned it and went for javascript instead.

Which if they also enable webassembly in the future is cool, because it means you will be able to run pretty much any language.

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by mohammedbin on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:21AM (#18167115)

Do you remember how you came by this knowledge?

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by tenryuu on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:04AM (#18168089)

When one developer said they rewrote office into JavaScript. The assumption is probably not accurate still

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Re:Call Python functions from VBA in all Microsoft Office apps by cm2187 on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:30AM (#18167205)

I don't but it was around the announcement of Office 2019 which introduced javascript as an alternative scripting language to VBA.

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