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🤯 Microsoft Announced Python In Excel. I knew It!

Tom Smykowski
3 min readAug 23, 2023

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I knew it! We have Python in Excel!

As you may recall, if you’re subscribed to my articles, a year ago I was reporting that:

As a Python programmer you have to remember when four years ago Microsoft was considering to introduce Python as a scripting language for Excel — Microsoft’s flagship spreadsheet application:

Two years ago Microsoft nudged about Python in Excel wrote:

And I wrote that:

I am not saying someone already implements Python support for Excel, I am rather saying that there might be an ongoing exploratory process.

And most importantly:

If it was entirely impossible, I believe we would have the negative answer by now.

As of August 2023 I can confirm my predictions occurred to be spot on!

In a big announcement made on August, 22, Microsoft confirmed Excel will support Python:

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Tom Smykowski
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