Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry

Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by etothepii on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:08AM (#25591310)

This is the real problem. It's not with excel per se, but the complete lack of automated testing and source control.

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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by fnord123 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:00AM (#25591589)

Python works with source control and tests so this would indeed be a problem with Excel per se.

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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by etothepii on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:14AM (#25592332)

But Python doesn't have to, I've seen plenty of python with 1000 line functions, no tests and no source control. It's particularly common in Jupyter Notebooks.

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