Python allows for automations that Excel VBA simply cannot perform. For instance, it can scrape data from websites, process that data, and subsequently insert it into an Excel sheet.

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Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl () and =PY ()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.

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