Microsoft Excel—the famed spreadsheet application with number-crunching and graphing capabilities—is the defining software of the white-collar workplace.

For most of its existence, Microsoft Excel has supported two main types of data: text and numbers. But Microsoft has been working for years to "up-level" the types of data supported in Excel and now ...

That’s the concept behind Xlwings, a BSD-licensed Python library that connects to Excel and allows Excel spreadsheets and Python applications to interact directly.

Microsoft has disabled Excel 4.0 macros by default in the latest release of its spreadsheet software to help customers protect themselves against related security threats.