Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.

[Larry Bates]

I don't think this is going to happen.

Applications that drive MS Office applications merely call COM
objects that perform the actual operations.  It doesn't really
matter what language calls the COM objects, they are the same
objects all the time.  If they don't like the "installation"
of the Python interpreter, use py2exe to convert your app to
an .EXE file with some supporting .DLL files and use Inno
Installer to turn it all into a single setup.exe file that
can be distributed.  Then you can install on machines without
doing Python installation.

Otherwise, bite the bullet and just learn and write in VB/VBA.

-Larry Bates


Engineer wrote:
> I'm looking for a Python interpreter written in BASIC, preferably
> Visual Basic, and one written in VBA would be best of all.  An
> alternative would be a Python-2-Basic compiler.
> 
> Unfortunately I have to develop some special purpose code in an
> organization where my only development environment is Microsoft Office
> Visual Basic for Applications.
> 
> The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a
> "standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be
> "safe."  Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl,
> Cygwin) are "unsafe" and can't be installed.
> 
> The result is that any software I write must be bootstrapped from MS
> Office VBA.
> 
> So, if I want Python, I need a Python interpreter in VBA.
> 
> If you respond, please send a copy to pcolsen at comcast.net
>