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Sandboxing python enough that millions of users could safely pass around excel workbooks is a super hard problem, especially when you allow third party librarie
by ec109685 3y ago
Sandboxing python enough that millions of users could safely pass around excel workbooks is a super hard problem, especially when you allow third party libraries.
Forcing it to run in an isolated environment they control simplifies the problem greatly.
- jasonjayr 3y agoWindows has it's own implementation of containers, and with a docker-like structure, and xlsx being a zip file, excel could simply have a dockerfile like structure "FROM excel-python:2023" "COPY xlsx:scripts/" etc. new versions of excel could keep the last few 'base' containers, or if they are in love with the cloud, the signed, verified base images could be pulled on request.
- ec109685 3y agoThe latest Windows does, but Excel is used across tons and tons of devices, and you'd want compatibility across them all.