Re: Controlling gnumeric from Python

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:58:24AM -0800, Alexey Goldin wrote:
> Well, this is not likely to work for me. py-func is an example how to
> create custom functions for spreadsheet. I need to go in the opposite
> direction --- there already exists an algorithm defined in Excel
> spreadsheet and I need to call this algorithm from outside, from
> Python or Java or C or whatever.  It does not seem to be possible  
> with gnumeric at this point ---- I really would like to be corrected. 
> For example, it is probably not possible to write Python function to
> do Gnumeric optimization, right?

It's not all that far off.  If you look at the Makefile for
ssconvert and ssindex you can see the heart what is about to become
libgnumeric.