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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 22:03:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:50:25 -0500, DFS wrote:

> On 1/1/2025 2:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:45:04 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>> 
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:25:01 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd bet a decent python script would do it in minutes, with a tiny
>>>>> footprint and be reliable.
>>>>
>>>> Even Microsoft realizes that now.
>>>
>>> I presume you're referring to excel now including a python
>>> interpreter. I don't think it's much of an improvement.
>> 
>> Obviously Microsoft is expecting its users to think otherwise. And it
>> wants to charge them for the privilege, so it must be expecting them to
>> believe it’s an improvement worth paying extra money for.
>> 
>> So either Python is that much better than VBA, or VBA is that much
>> worse than Python. Take your pick. ;)
> 
> Python in Excel costs NOTHING.
> 
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/python-in-excel#pricing-plans

Read the fine print.