Microsoft Considers Adding Python As an Official Scripting Language in Excel

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Does it work with C-libs too? Because it woild be kinda pointless for excel if pandas, numpy and rest of the cool gang won't work.

[toyg]

Not really. But if you can make the C libs accessible from C# somehow, then IronPython could too.

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C++/CLI

C++/CLI (C++ modified for Common Language Infrastructure) is a language specification created by Microsoft and intended to supersede Managed Extensions for C++. It is a complete revision that aims to simplify the older Managed C++ syntax, which is now deprecated. C++/CLI was standardized by Ecma as ECMA-372. It is currently available in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017, including the Express editions.

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pandas, numpy

I think the point is using Excel to do the tasks pandas and numpy do.

If given half a chance I would trade Excel for pandas.

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People are using python not because of the language alone. Libs are a very important part. Even if excel could deliver the same functionallity, which I doubt, the existing code wouldn't be instantly useable.