Microsoft As a secure operation, Microsoft says Python in Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security within the Microsoft 365 experience. This means that the code is executed ...

It also brought popular Python libraries to Excel, such as Matplotlib and Seaborn for data visualization. Until now, users had to run Python code on Microsoft Azure’s cloud servers. To provide Python ...

It will be interesting to see how Python’s integration into Excel works out. It’s a very specialized, cloud-hosted, and seemingly containerized and secured code offering.

Microsoft is integrating Python into its Excel app. A public preview is available for Microsoft 365 subscribers now and all the Python code runs on the Microsoft Cloud.

With Python in Excel, users will be able to type Python code directly into an Excel cell. The Python calculations will run on Microsoft’s cloud servers and be delivered back to the Excel sheet.

Microsoft treats Python in Excel like other embedded scripting languages, automatically blocking them if a document contains a Mark of The Web (MoTW). Windows automatically adds MoTW flags to all ...

“While in Preview, Python in Excel will be included with your Microsoft 365 subscription,” said Microsoft. “After the Preview, some functionality will be restricted without a paid license.