Comments by "" (@GSBarlev) on "Microsoft Excel just got Python" video.

Is it not common knowledge that Guido is on Microsol's payroll?
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@vnc.t The world runs on a Minecraft turtle's back, which is itself just the fever dream of a financial analyst's 24MM-row P&L spreadsheet. Which these days has been executing inside a dataframe inside a dataframe
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Hence why mamba exists.
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Running Python in Excel is the uno reverse card of my entire career up until this point—parsing business analyst and recruiter spreadsheets for ingestion into Python frameworks. I also have a prediction that Jassy's Web Hosting (And Omni-Bazaar) is going to hard fork LibreOffice and market it as their own competitor that runs in AWS.
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@adamestrada7610 Yeah, conda-main tends to run a bit behind conda-forge, which itself can be sometimes be a point release behind PyPI. But it's usually not quite "apt repository" level of staleness.
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@lawrencedoliveiro9104 No, conda is an alternative to pip (really poetry) that is used for creating virtual environments and installing packages. Unlike venv, it's not just limited to Python libraries and can install binaries for other languages and even alternative versions of Python. The package solver was historically very slow (as opposed to pip's solver, which was historically VERY BAD) but it's gotten better lately. There's also a drop-in replacement called mamba that is super-fast.
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 @lawrencedoliveiro9104 openpyxl: "Am I a joke to you?" xlrd: "Don't answer that."
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@dinoscheidt It actually could end up being the opposite—no reason you won't be able to run pytest on your spreadsheet (which is something I've actually done in the past). Also remember that Guido is a major contributor to mypy.
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