Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by claudeganon on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:37PM (#25072290)

Office suite automation with Python would be great across the board. The external python libraries that do this are pretty clunky and VB scripting is a hot mess.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by phonon on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:31AM (#25079940)

https://www.xlwings.org/ and https://www.pyxll.com/

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by tomjen3 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:43PM (#25072369)

Office now allows you to script it using Typescript, so you don't have to use VB any more.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by jannes on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:59PM (#25073441)

I'm really curious what you are talking about?

I could only find "Office Scripts", which doesn't work in the normal desktop apps (only the web version).

Edit: I just found out about "Script Lab". Is that what you are talking about? https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA10438...

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by claudeganon on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:44PM (#25072384)

Oh that’s cool! Haven’t had to do anything with it in a few years, but excited to check out how this works.

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