Re: I made a python module to bypass the special bindings

[Andreas Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 00:36 -0600, G Bergeron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just a newbie programer who wanted to be able to run python
> functions in a spreadsheet, and found gnumeric.  What I have written
> allow to run external functions from within cells without doing all of
> the special binding stuff (it circumvents binding the functions.  See
> the example in the linked site)
>
> The code and some of my comments are here:
> http://cloudform511.posterous.com/python-addon-in-gnumeric
>
> in my opinion some form of this should be standard to the gnumeric
> package.  You should not have to write special linking scripts to get
> data into a python-usable format!
>
> Next I want to write a class that lets you control the worksheet
> externally using python, but before I can do that there has to be some
> way to know which workbooks and sheets class to control.  More on this
> at a later time.

This looks interesting but I suspect that the licenses clash and so this
could not be distributed with Gnumeric.

Andreas