Python in a spreadsheet

[John J. Lee]

Nick Vargish <nav+posts at bandersnatch.org> writes:

> beliavsky at aol.com writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to call a Python function from Calc (the Open Office
> > spreadsheet) or Microsoft Excel? Are their web sites or books
> > describing how to do this?
> 
> You could check out the latest version of StarOffice from Sun (version
> 7, I believe) -- apparently it has Python scripting support built-in.
> 
> I found that pretty interesting... Isn't Sun committed to something
> called Joe or Java or something like that?

Yeah, but that's for the "enterprise technologists" -- I could think
of another word for them, though <wink>.


John