DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel

I remember being so excited about this product that I sent a msg to the IronSpread team thanking them for their work, even though I hadn't even used their product yet. (I'd never done that before for any product)<p>It's great to see this taking off (and I had no idea it was part of YC until now), and am looking forward to future updates!<p>Best of luck to the team :)

Please take my money if you port VBA on top of your Python runtime. And take even more money if said embedded Python runtime is available on Openoffice as well. [1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360454" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360454</a>

Previous (2 months old) discussion here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085052" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085052</a>

Nice work. Some piece of feedback: documentation is lacking any information on how to interact with VBA functionality/classes that you don't have your wrappers for. E.g. how do I work with creating/opening/interacting with other workbooks?

Great job guys! I'd love to know bit more about the exact benefits of using Python and a few simple examples of how to use it... then again, I am just a casual excel user so I am likely not the right audience

Congrats guys love this stuff have been using it for a couple of months. The people who work on the Excel team were really impressed when I demoed it to them. Best of luck!

I think this is so awesome, I spent a summer as a lowly intern for a bank once trying to write up an entire debt model in VBA (bad idea on so many fronts...), and I wanted to gouge my eyes out at the end. I would've given an arm and a leg to be able to write in Python, as I'm sure many others...so excited to see this happen!

Why the name change?

Is there currently any way to use Python in a Google Document spreadsheet?

FYI, for Java there's XLLoop (open source), JExcel (commercial) and Obba (commercial). Haven't used these myself, but looking into it.

Oh wow, YC!! I'm sure the product would be awesome. Let me check out the link.

Any comparison with ResolverOne and why they have a better chance to succeed?

Awesome work guys.

Congrats guys.