Open Excel, and you will see a new tab in the ribbon at the top that says PyXLL.

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Forging ahead. Pyston is advancing by great strides. Its latest release, version 0.5.1, shows Dropbox cadging more performance out of its JIT-compiling Python implementation.Pyston not only runs ...