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Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel by skrause on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:55PM (#37226346)
You can just ship a copy of Python with Excel, no need to ask anybody to maintain their own installation.
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Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel by ryanisnan on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:57PM (#37227072)
This. Why you would leverage system python is beyond me.
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Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel by ivirshup on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:52PM (#37229643)
Anaconda distributions aren't exactly small. I'd also assume there's some sort of environment isolation, so you're getting multiple copies. Maybe one per workbook?
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Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel by Zuiii on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:26PM (#37231196)
No need to use Anaconda or any general purpose venv solution. Microsoft screwed this up.
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Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel by ptx on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:28AM (#37249965)
The embeddable package from python.org [1] is 20 MB unpacked. To install different sets of packages per workbook, just (edit: have Excel automatically) modify the module path as appropriate.

[1] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3114/

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Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel by CivBase on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:34AM (#37235602)
Agreed. They could have easily shipped it with something like MicroPython.
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