That’s the concept behind Xlwings, a BSD-licensed Python library that connects to Excel and allows Excel spreadsheets and Python applications to interact directly.

This makes Excel By Example invaluable because it addresses its topics in a step-by-step, example format that allows readers to immediately make use of the ideas introduced by Kagan.

Microsoft adds a new Copilot function to Excel, letting users generate, analyze, and summarize data directly in spreadsheet ...