• mirshafie@europe.pub
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    2 days ago

    There are Python tools for interacting with xlsx which are pretty nice, but I’m not going to use that to edit a spreadsheet. Kind of defeats the purpose.

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      2 days ago

      Well I can give an example of why a tool like that is useful.

      Export data for a client form internal system but that export looks like shit.

      I could spend an hour cleaning it up (multiplied by the number of other workers needing to do similar things) or I could write an office script and create essentially an import template that formats it nicely.

      I’m choosing the latter every time.

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        2 days ago

        Sounds pretty reasonable actually. We could probably use something like that for some of the reports we make. I’ll look in to it.