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minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 hours agoDump it out as a CSV and import it to excel?
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·20 hours agothat is manual labor each time you run the script, while plotting in python re-makes the plot automatically.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoYou could just automate the generation of the excel sheet as well - it’s really just pick your poison.
minus-squareThemadbeagle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 hours agoHaving worked on a programs that automatically generate and process data from excel spreadsheets for a large company, I shuddered when you said that.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoOh my, no the other way round, spreadsheet loads the data and let excel handle it. I think you can probably even embed python at this point. I’m not seriously advocating for this approach either, to be clear.
Dump it out as a CSV and import it to excel?
that is manual labor each time you run the script, while plotting in python re-makes the plot automatically.
You could just automate the generation of the excel sheet as well - it’s really just pick your poison.
Having worked on a programs that automatically generate and process data from excel spreadsheets for a large company, I shuddered when you said that.
Oh my, no the other way round, spreadsheet loads the data and let excel handle it. I think you can probably even embed python at this point. I’m not seriously advocating for this approach either, to be clear.