Which way is best to execute a Python script in Excel?

[Maurizio Spadaccino]

Hi all

I'm new to Python but soon after a few days of studying its features I find
it my favourite mean of programming scripts to allow for data storing and
mining. My idea would be to inplement python scripts from inside an excel
sheet that would store and fetch data from a Mysql database. So i need the
script to be launched, say, by pressing a button in excel and, for
instance, retrieve immediately data from the mysql table. For what I found
in the net, it seems there are three ways to control python from excel:
1) run my python script via shell using the Run command in VBA, which seems
to me the easiest (but maybe slower?) way;
2) creating a COM server, for which I need more training since it doesnt
appear that easy;
3) via Microsoft Script Control, for which I saw some example around where
It looks like I can 'simulate' a python shell via the 'executeStatement'
command.

What would you suggest would be the more performing way to achieve my goals
as described above?

Thanks for you help
Maurizio


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