M icrosoft just announced new feature for Python in Excel that lets you analyze images in your spreadsheets. You no longer ...

Python is now integrated into Excel via Microsoft 365, allowing users to write Python code directly in spreadsheets using the `=PY` formula, enhancing data analysis and visualization capabilities.

It also brought popular Python libraries to Excel, such as Matplotlib and Seaborn for data visualization. Until now, users had to run Python code on Microsoft Azure’s cloud servers. To provide Python ...

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Microsoft Excel now lets you run Python scripts on images to detect sharpness, edit visuals, and analyze metadata.

Users can just use Excel's new PY function to type in Python code in an Excel cell. All the code calculations are then run on a Microsoft Cloud server and are then put back in the Excel app.

This allows the Python code to be executed directly in a browser-based Excel add-in. PyScript is based on Pyodide, a project originally launched by Mozilla for Python applications in the browser.