Python allows for automations that Excel VBA simply cannot perform. For instance, it can scrape data from websites, process that data, and subsequently insert it into an Excel sheet.

Within the Python in Excel environment, you can directly create and interact with dataframes (the fundamental data structure in Python's powerful pandas library).

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Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl () and =PY ()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.

Some members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can now try out the combination of Python, Excel and the Anaconda Python repository.

Excel-maker Microsoft and Anaconda, a key distributor of Python tools, unveiled a collaboration this week that will see Python integrated with Excel. The new Anaconda Python Distribution in Excel, ...

Microsoft today announced the public preview of Python in Excel, which will allow advanced spreadsheet users to combine scripts in the popular Python language and their usual Excel formulas in the ...

If the ubiquitous spreadsheet program is the gateway to data science, Python aims to be the next step.