copypaster
Make web forms copy-pasteable. (by breck7)
xlwings
xlwings is a Python library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa. It works with Excel on Windows and macOS as well as with Google Sheets and Excel on the web. (by xlwings)
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| 96 | 2,840 | |
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| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| over 1 year ago | 12 days ago | |
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| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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copypaster
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Show HN: Book about forms usability for devs
If you are not using Tree Notation for your forms yet, you are doing it wrong: https://github.com/breck7/copypaster
- 18 second animated GIF vs. $1B a year on software engineers
- Make web forms copy-pasteable.
- The future of web forms
- The Future of Web Forms
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Excel Never Dies
I figured out how to do this years ago, even before I worked at Microsoft (and pitched it while there a number of times).
It wasn't easy, and there was a lot to figure out, but the end result is starting to look pretty simple:
https://youtu.be/vn2aJA5ANUc?t=145
https://github.com/publicdomaincompany/copypaster
- CopyPaster: using Tree Notation for Web Forms
- A design pattern you can use to make web forms copy/pasteable and spreadsheets
- A notation that makes web forms into copy/pasteable plain text documents that also can be edited in a spreadsheet
- Show HN: Make all web forms copy/pasteable as a single form. Web 3.0
xlwings
Posts with mentions or reviews of xlwings.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
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Python in Excel: Combining the Power of Python and the Flexibility of Excel
Reading the headline, I initially thought that Microsoft bought the company behind XLWings [1], which also enables you to use Excel directly within Excel, even locally. Not affiliated in any kind to that company, just used it in the past.
[1] https://www.xlwings.org/
- Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
- Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis
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Running python from excel
xlWings https://www.xlwings.org/
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Creating slicers with xlwings
I'm trying to automate a report and I know xlwings does not support pivot tables and slicers, as it is essentially a pywin32 wrapper. You can directly reference the COM object using .api and constants
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VM for python automation projects
Also you can also use xlwings library to build an excel add-on to replace or even augment VBA.
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Help with Python automation at work to free up time as single Dad.
You want xlwings (my preferred) or openpyxl
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[Question] Can I automate this? Sending emails with a file that needs to be updated.
You could look at using Python from Excel using xlwings.
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Microsoft upgrades Office security by blocking VBA macros by default
Xlwings is superior anyway.
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Any ways to use excel to run a, say, python script?
xlwings - open source and free - https://www.xlwings.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing copypaster and xlwings you can also consider the following projects:
ipykernel - IPython Kernel for Jupyter
openpyxl
XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.
SheetJS js-xlsx - 📗 SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs
pyexcel - Single API for reading, manipulating and writing data in csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files
scroll - Tools for thought. An extensible alternative to Markdown.
xlwt
python-docx - Create and modify Word documents with Python
python-pptx - Create Open XML PowerPoint documents in Python
unoconv - Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
docxtpl - Use a docx as a jinja2 template