Python in Excel is now generally available for Windows users
  • jacksilver@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 个月前

    My biggest issue with it is that it runs everything in the cloud. So you’re shipping your data to Microsoft and have latency to run anything. Seems insecure and added complexity to get a bit more out of excel.

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
      11·
      3 个月前

      Oh seriously? When there were rumblings of it coming years ago, I just assumed it would be implemented as a VBA successor, have everything local but just baked into excel. I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised though…

      • jacksilver@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 个月前

        Yeah I was really disappointed when I heard it was a cloud solution. I think it’s due to complexity of python runtime environments, but I doubt msoft minds the opportunity to take more control.

    • rhymepurple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      3 个月前

      I agree with everything you said, but (in Microsoft’s eyes) this is a feature - not a bug.

      Without this cloud component, how could:

      • Microsoft make sure that the accounting team does not introduce a malicious/old Python library into the Excel file?
      • Microsoft protect its users from writing/running inefficient, buggy, or malicious Python code?
      • Microsoft provide a Python runtime to users who do not know how to install Python?
      • Microsoft charge to run code that you wrote in a free, open source software programming language on a device that you own?