How to create an Excel app that runs Python?

[farayao.ds at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 24 March 2020 17:38:11 UTC, Paolo G. Cantore  wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 4:45 PM <farayao.ds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have the following scenario:
> >
> > I have created lots of python files that I use to calculate a Cashflow
> > model, when I run these files I get a beautiful pandas DataFrame that
> > contains my final model. My mission is to show this table to the rest of
> > the company in a friendly format ("Excel") and they need to be able to
> > generate this table themselves from Excel, using the Python script I
> > created ("the idea is that they open an excel file that has some type of
> > dashboard and a form that they need to fill in, once they fill it in and
> > press "Go" or "Run" or something like that, these parameters will be sent
> > to the Python script to generate this final pandas DataFrame. Finally this
> > DataFrame needs to be displayed/pasted in the Excel sheet that they
> > initially opened)
> >
> >
> > The problems:
> >
> > The company needs to be able to run this model, but the users, apart from
> > me, use Excel and they can't open up a Jupyter notebook or VSC to run the
> > code. They can't even install Python on their machines (or at least that is
> > not ideal)
> >
> >
> > My Attempts:
> >
> > I am currently using "xlwings" to run Python within Excel, although it
> > requires that the user has Python and xlwings installed and has added the
> > xlwings "Addin", which is not an ideal solution at all.
> >
> > I am thinking about using Dash, I don't know if it is what I need since I
> > haven't looked into it that much yet (I have been trying to make it work on
> > xlwings first)
> >
> >
> >
> > If you have any suggestions on how to do this, I would really appreciate
> > that.
> >
> > Thank you
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> >
> The scenario you describe should be fulfilled by a web application.
> 
> I'm sure your users are also able to use a browser, not only Excel.
> 
> The HTML forms management offers the GUI capabilities to enter the 
> parameters. The processing steps could be as follows:
> 
> 1. Enter the url for the application in question and display the form.
> 2. Enter the needed data in the form.
> 3. Process the data (with lots of your python scripts) and show the 
> result in the browser.
> 4. If all is ok, download the data sheet in Excel format (using 
> DataFrame.to_excel)

Hello Paolo,

Thanks for your reply, indeed now I'm thinking on building a web app, do you have any suggestions for this? I am thinking of using Tkinter, the method that you describe using HTML is also using Javascript?

Kind Regards
Felipe