Spreadsheets using Python
Productivity
spreadsheet
SHOW HN2010
97points
47comments
#10of 370 in 2010
Top 3%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interest in using Python for spreadsheet work
From 2 comments
Spreadsheets with python . . cackles evilly . can you feel the POWER! In all serious I play with data in CSV format with python all the time so this could be extremely useful…
hartror on HNYou should! I really would prefer Python over VBA for my Excel programming.
kees on HN
Requests
Support for scatter and line charts
From 1 comment
If this could do a basic scatter plot and/or Line graph. I would never need another spreadsheet.
tkahnoski on HN
Questions
How cell dependencies are tracked and update order is computed
From 3 comments
How does it deal with dependencies between cells? How does it figure out what order to update them in?
omaranto on HNI'd suspect that there's a listing somewhere that says, for a given cell, what other cells depend on it, so it knows to update the others when it's modified. I can't immediately…
rflrob on HNThe standard technique is to keep a directed graph with an edge from a cell to each cell that depends on it, then propagate changes recursively. This works well when the total…
gruseom on HN
Alternatives named
Resolver One
From 1 comment
There is also Resolver One. - http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/ I have always thought it looked awesome, but is Windows only so I haven't been able to try it.
jaxn on HN
Dirigible
From 1 comment
The same guys who created Resolver One recently embarked upon a cloud-based, Python spreadsheet application called Dirigible (http://www.projectdirigible.com/). It looks pretty…
hoffstein on HN
Hypernumbers
From 1 comment
Was it http://hypernumbers.com ?
dogonwheels on HN
SIAG (Scheme In A Grid)
From 1 comment
> To be honest, my first thought was having a Scheme-based spreadsheet. I'm already used to lots of parenthesis and Excel script is sort of functional already. Not sure it'd work…
thristian on HN
PyXLL
From 1 comment
There is also PyXLL, which allows you to call python from Excel. http://www.pyxll.com
daredevildave on HN