Why is Python so popular? There's plenty of room for debate on this, but one solid reason is it's

easy to adopt, easy to use, and cater to people who are not quite developers, data scientists,

but need to get some computing done. Do you know where the largest untapped set of those people

hang out? Excel. That's why it's super exciting that Python is now going to be built directly into

Excel. Just go into a cell and type equals Pi, and you're off writing full Python 3 code

that is backed by a lightweight anaconda distribution of Python. We have Dr. Sarah Kaiser here to give us

the rundown on Python and Excel. This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 445 recorded live

and on location at Microsoft Ignite in Seattle, November 16, 2003. Welcome to Talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python. This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Massadon, where I'm at M. Kennedy and follow the podcast using at Talk Python, both on Bostadon.org.

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your podcast player show notes. Sarah, welcome to Talk Pythonomy. Hey, how's it going? Hey, it's going

super well, super well here at Ignite for one more time to talk about cool stuff with Python and things going on. This time it's going to be Excel and Python. It's like Reese's pieces. You got your chocolate and my peanut butter. Like, what's going on here? I mean, the cats and dogs, are they living together?

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