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Python cells in the interface: formula bar Python mode, PY tags, card, return type, Insert Python (no code runs) - #2639
This pull request adds the interface for editing Python cells: a Python mode in the formula bar, a PY tag on Python cells, a card that shows a cell's cached result, the return-type switch, and Formulas › Python › Insert Python. It runs no Python code; a cell with new or changed code shows #BLOCKED!, and the card says that this version stores Python code but does not run it. It replaces the editing parts of #482.
It is stacked on #2637 (Python cells as data). Only the last six commits belong to this pull request; the first four are #2637's.
Changes
Python mode in the formula bar. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P (Cmd+Option+Shift+P on macOS) enters and leaves Python mode for the active cell, as in Excel; typing =PY and then Tab also enters it, and so does editing a Python cell (F2, a double-click, or a click in the formula bar). In Python mode the formula bar shows a PY badge and edits the code in the code editor widget with Python colours. Enter starts a new line with the current indentation, Tab and Shift+Tab indent and outdent, Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) commits through python.set, and Esc cancels. Every commit of Python code goes through python.set, including the Enter button and a click on another cell. When python.set refuses the code (for example, code over the 8,192-character formula limit), the message is shown and the code stays in the editor. Committing empty code clears the cell through cell.set; on a cell that is not a Python cell it writes nothing. The formula bar is shown while Python mode is open, also when View › Formula Bar hides it, and a Python draft belongs to the window it was typed in, as other drafts do.
Key handling. The code editor applies a frame's keyboard events in their input order up to a stop key (commit, cancel, leave the mode). This keeps the custom Tab and Enter behaviour for every key event in a frame, including Ctrl+A followed by Tab, Shift+Tab, and a key event followed by text and Enter in one frame.
PY tag and card. Every Python cell carries a PY tag, drawn with theme tokens and mirrored on right-to-left sheets. A click on the tag, Ctrl+Shift+F5 or ui.pythonCard opens a card for the cell. The card shows the cached result's type, the return type and a preview (capped at 80 characters for the type and 600 characters or 12 lines for the preview), or, for a #BLOCKED! cell, the sentence "This version of GridCraft stores Python code but does not run it."
Protection. On a protected sheet, a Python cell whose format has Protection › Hidden shows nothing in the formula bar, and no edit entry point (F2, a double-click, a click in the formula bar, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P, the PY badge, Insert Python) loads its code; display::formula_hidden covers Python cells as it covers formulas.
Return type. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M and two entries in the cell menu switch the active Python cell between Python Object and Excel Value, Excel's labels, through the new command python.output {cell?, mode?}. With empty parameters the command switches the active cell, or returns an error when that cell is not a Python cell.
Ribbon. Formulas › Python has one control, Insert Python, with an icon drawn in code and the key tip M, Y. It enters Python mode on the active cell.
Control channel.ui.pythonMode {on?} and ui.pythonCard {on?} open no dialog, and ui.inspect reports whether the editor is in Python mode.
Translations. The new strings are in every catalog.
Tests
Python mode: entering and leaving it by both shortcuts and by the ribbon; Enter and Tab inside it, including several key events in one frame; committing with Ctrl+Enter; Esc; a refused commit keeping the code; an unchanged commit adding no undo step.
PY tag and card: the tag, the card for a cached result and for #BLOCKED!, the right-to-left placement, the text caps.
Return type: the shortcut and the cell menu; python.output with empty parameters.
Ribbon: the control and its key tip.
Protection: a hidden Python cell on a protected sheet shows no code and opens no editor; unprotected or not hidden, it behaves normally.
cargo xtask ci passes.
Screenshots
[Image 1: Python mode in the formula bar with five lines of code and the PY badge.]
[Image 2: PY tags on Python cells, one showing a cached result and one showing #BLOCKED!.]
[Image 3: the card for a cell with a cached DataFrame result.]
[Image 4: Formulas › Python › Insert Python.]
Generative AI use: The code and descriptions in this pull request were written with the assistance of Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code). I directed the work, chose its scope, and reviewed and tested the changes.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Add Python cells with syntax-highlighted editing, a PY indicator, and controls to switch between Python Object and Excel Value output.
View cached result details in a cell card. Enter Python mode from the Formulas ribbon, formula bar, or keyboard shortcuts.
Read and save Python cells and cached results in supported formats, including eligible spill results.
Behavior
Python code is stored but not run in this version. New or changed code displays #BLOCKED!; spill conflicts display #SPILL!.
Python references update when cells or sheets are moved, renamed, or deleted. Editing and paste operations preserve or clear Python code according to the selected action.
Add Python-related error values and translate the new interface labels.
This change adds Python cells with stored code, cached results, formula and file-format support, and Python-specific errors. It adds engine commands and recalculation behavior, plus formula-bar editing, cell tags, result cards, and output-mode controls. This build stores Python code but does not execute it.
Changes: Python cell support
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Summary
Python cell data and formula contracts crates/model/src/*, crates/core/src/value.rs
Cells now store optional Python code, cached output, output mode, and staleness. Formula utilities parse and encode Python formulas and scan and rewrite literal xl() references. Four Python-related error values are added.
Recalculation lays out retained Python arrays and includes Python cells in graph and range reads. File opening adopts eligible Python formulas and cached spills within stated limits. XLSX reading and writing handles Python formulas, cached values, and spill metadata.
The interface adds Python-mode entry, editing, commit, and cancel controls. Python edits commit through python.set. Keyboard shortcuts, ribbon and keytip entry points, protected-sheet behavior, and editor state are covered by integration tests.
Python cell tags and result cards crates/ui-egui/src/python_card.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/grid.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/icons.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/theme.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/*, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/python_card.rs
Python cells display a PY tag and can open a result card. The interface adds output-mode controls, card dismissal behavior, theme colors, and localized labels.
sequenceDiagram
participant SheetApp
participant PythonCommand
participant Workbook
SheetApp->>PythonCommand: commit code with python.set
PythonCommand->>Workbook: store Python cell and cached result
PythonCommand-->>SheetApp: return displayed value or command error
Opening a workbook whose Python part is damaged in a non-size way can fail outright instead of loading with the cell values kept. This is an edge case on corrupt files, and the fix is one match arm. One control-protocol doc row also needs a wording fix. Neither issue affects normal use, so the change is close to mergeable once these are addressed.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to ed17d
The change stores Python code without executing it. The inspected paths preserve import limits, protected-cell checks, and transactional edits. No material security regression was established, but interactions between open drafts and undo/redo, along with less-inspected consumers, leave some uncertainty.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The traced attacker-controlled surface is workbook content entering the importer. Its demonstrated downstream reach is cell metadata, cached worksheet values, spill layout, and serialization. These inspected flows do not grant Python execution authority.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Python-part import ignores external relationships and reads internal targets through the archive-member map with decompression limits. Export emits escaped XML text rather than invoking the stored source.
observed — Engine opening rejects oversized encoded Python code after parsing, retaining only the cached cell value and removing its spill. Cached arrays require matching dimensions and at most one million elements; reconstruction from imported spills has a four-million-cell aggregate budget.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Normal draft commits route to the owning document and window, while file and window-switching commands settle drafts first. Undo and redo instead settle only text-box edits; that dispatch behavior is unchanged from the supplied base, so it is not evidence by itself of a newly introduced security weakness.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:
- Around line 1252-1253: Update both Python-code-preserving paste branches,
What::All and What::Formulas, to qualify current-sheet Python references with
src_sheet_name before assigning new.py during a cross-sheet cut. Preserve
existing behavior for other paste operations, and ensure references within the
moved range can still be adjusted to destination coordinates by the later
rewrite_python_refs call.
Review comments at @crates/model/src/python.rs:
- Around line 278-282: Update rewrite_xl to preserve references when the
replacement contains the literal’s current quote: switch both delimiters to the
other quote when the replacement contains only one quote type, and skip only
when it contains both. Continue skipping replacements containing backslashes or
newlines, and add a test for renaming a sheet to a space-containing name
referenced by a single-quoted xl literal.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/formula_bar.rs:
- Around line 383-389: Update the `SheetApp::ui` visibility condition so
`formula_bar::show` runs when the formula bar is enabled or a Python editor
session is active. Preserve the existing formula-bar preference behavior while
keeping Python edits visible when that preference is disabled.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:
- Line 1155: Set the active window on Python edit state in both Python edit
entry points: after each `EditState::python` call in `begin_edit` and
`begin_python_edit`, assign `self.session.active_window()` to `ed.window` before
storing the state in `self.editor`. This ensures window-switch handling can
commit the draft in its originating window.
Review comments at @crates/xlsx/src/sheet_write.rs:
- Line 693: Update the Python-cell serialization around py_text and
to_file_formula() to write the code into the XLSX Python script part and use its
zero-based script-element index as the first argument of the PY formula, rather
than embedding the code text directly in the formula.
Review comments at @docs/architecture.md:
- Line 3: Remove the space after the opening bold marker in the “Last updated”
label in the document’s metadata line so Markdown renders it as bold, matching
the existing “Last reviewed” label.
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Cell gains `py: Option<Arc<PyCode>>`, read with a serde default and not
written for ordinary cells, so older native files load and ordinary
cells serialize as before. PyCode holds the code, the return type (an
Excel value or a Python object), the last result (value, type name,
preview, whether it converted to cells) and a stale flag for manual
calculation. The cell's `value` stays the cached result, so formulas,
display and saving read a Python cell like any other. is_blank,
CellStore::has and input_text (which returns the code) take the code
into account; Cell::has_content and clear_content cover value, formula
and code together.
The model reads and writes the PY function's syntax as Microsoft
documents it, PY("chunk"&"chunk",0|1), with string literals of at most
255 characters and the return type 0 for an Excel value, 1 for a Python
object. The reader takes the `_xlfn._xlws.` prefix (and `_xlfn.` or
`_xlws.` alone, in any letter case); to_file_formula writes it. (An xlsx
file keeps the code in its Python part instead; the xlsx commit adds
it.) The size limit is Excel's 8,192 characters for that formula, not a
count of code characters: doubled quotes and the "&" between literals
count, so code with many quotes fits in fewer characters (8,079
characters of plain code fit exactly). The model also finds the
xl("...") literals in code, skipping comments and other strings; a plain
literal may escape a quote or a backslash. A rewritten reference that
holds the literal's quote (a sheet name that needs quotes, 'Q4
2026'!B2) takes the other quote as the literal's delimiter, or an
escaped quote when it holds both, so it never ends the string early.
Edits: cell.set over a Python cell, Clear Contents, Clear All and the
cells a merge empties remove the code; Clear Formats keeps it. Copy and
paste (All, Formulas), Fill, sort, cut-move, sheet copy and undo carry
it; a cut to another sheet first qualifies its xl() references with the
source sheet, as a moved formula's references are, so they keep
reading the same cells. Paste Values and Paste Link do not carry it,
and paste operations do not combine numbers with a Python cell. Fill
copies Python cells instead of extending them as a series. cell.set
with =PY(...) is refused with a message that points to python.set, and
Text to Columns keeps a piece that reads as =PY(...) as text instead of
clearing it. Goal Seek refuses a Python cell as its changing cell, and
Solver as a variable cell, as both refuse formulas: the number written
there would replace the code. The sheet-protection check compares the
code, so a locked Python cell cannot be changed. cell.get reports
{python: code, output, typeName, preview, stale}.
The xl() literals follow reference-moving edits: rewrite_all_formulas
(row and column insert and delete, cell insert and delete, cut-move),
sheet rename and sheet delete adjust each literal like a formula
reference, and replace it only when it changed.
Errors: CellError gains Python, Busy, Timeout and Blocked, and ALL has
14 entries, so the lexer reads them as literals. ERROR.TYPE gives 11 for
#BLOCKED!, the number Excel returns. Microsoft documents no ERROR.TYPE
number for #PYTHON!, #BUSY! or #TIMEOUT!; they take 19, 20 and 21, after
the numbers Excel is known to use. The xlsx writer caches the four as
#VALUE!, as it already does #SPILL! and #CALC!, because they are not
error codes of the file format.
Tests cover the =PY refusal, removal by entry and clearing, undo, copy,
paste values, fill and sort, xl() rewrites through row insert, sheet
rename (also to names that need quotes, with one quote and with both),
cut-move (also to another sheet) and column delete, Goal Seek and
Solver refusing Python cells, Text to Columns keeping a =PY piece,
native JSON round trips, the new errors, the prefixes, escaped quotes in
literals, and the encoded size limit at 8,192 characters exactly and
with doubled quotes.
doesn't run it
python.set {cell?, code, output?: object|value} makes the cell (the
active cell by default) a Python cell, keeping its style and taking a
formula and its spill away. `output` is the return type Microsoft
documents for PY(): an Excel value (the default) or a Python object;
without it a Python cell keeps the one it had. The code must fit in
Excel's 8,192-character formula once written as PY(...), quotes doubled
and literals joined, so the command checks the encoded formula rather
than a character count. A table's header row refuses Python (it holds
the column's name, as Excel keeps formulas out of headers), and a locked
cell on a protected sheet refuses it through the usual protection check.
Nothing runs Python here. Unchanged code keeps its cached result and
value; new or changed code shows #BLOCKED!. One undo step takes the cell
back.
Sheet::clear_spill removes the spilled values inside a range with work
bounded by the values stored, not by the range's size.
In the interface, F2, a double click or the formula bar on a Python cell
edits its code, and a changed text is committed through python.set,
which keeps the return type; through cell.set it would have replaced the
Python cell with an ordinary cell holding the code as text. Typing over
a Python cell replaces it, as typing over a formula does, and committing
the code unchanged writes nothing. Deleting all the code clears the
cell through cell.set, as an empty entry clears any other cell; code
of spaces is still code.
Tests: the code and return type in cell.get, #BLOCKED! for new code,
cached results kept for unchanged code, the active-cell default, undo,
refused params (missing or non-text code, a bad cell, a bad return
type), the encoded limit at 8,079 and 8,080 characters and with doubled
quotes, a table header, a protected sheet, and a formula's spill taken
away. A UI test edits a Python cell's code with F2 and Enter, commits it
unchanged, and types over it; another clears a Python cell by deleting
all its code, keeps code of spaces, and undoes the clearing.
…art, cached values; opening limits
A Python cell is written to xlsx as [MS-XLSX] 2.3.10 specifies: its
formula is _xlfn._xlws.PY(i,0|1), where i is the zero-based index of the
cell's script in the workbook's Python part and 0|1 the return type, 0
for an Excel value and 1 for a Python object. The part (2.1.23) is
xl/python.xml, content type application/vnd.ms-excel.python+xml,
related from the workbook part with
http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2023/09/relationships/Python; its
root python holds pythonScripts, one pythonScript per Python cell in the
order the cells are written, with the code in code. The code keeps its
xl() references as text, so the formula has no further arguments. The
cell keeps its cached value. A spilling result is written like a dynamic
array (cm="1", t="array" ref=...) with the spilled values cached, so
other applications show the values (and #NAME? if they recalculate).
The reader turns a PY( formula with or without the _xlfn. and _xlws.
prefixes into a Python cell. An index names a script of the Python part,
and each %Px% in the script becomes the text of the formula's argument x
(2.3.10.4). The string-literal form, PY("chunk"&"chunk",0|1), still
reads, from the formula's own text so line breaks in the code survive. A
formula naming a script the part doesn't hold keeps only its cached
value, with a warning: no calculation can evaluate it. The reader keeps
the cached spilled values as the cell's result, so a workbook from Excel
shows its arrays without running anything. Python errors are cached as
#VALUE!, as #SPILL! and #CALC! already are. Native JSON keeps Cell.py
whole: code, return type, the last result and the exact error.
Calc lays out a Python cell's kept result: Python cells are nodes of the
dependency graph that read nothing, and a pass takes a dirty Python
cell's result instead of evaluating it, so its array spills, is blocked
(#SPILL!) and unblocked, and feeds its dependents exactly like a
formula's. An array that is malformed or has more than 1,000,000 cells
(only a crafted file holds one) shows #SPILL!. A dirty Python cell is
pending in the pass, as a dirty formula is, so a formula, a range read
or a cell-by-cell range walk that reaches it before its turn lays it out
first rather than reading its old value.
Opening a file can't make the app loop over a claimed size: the reader
keeps a Python cell's spill range only when it has at most 1,000,000
cells (a range claiming the whole sheet is dropped with its values, as a
formula's spilled values are), and io::adopt_python rebuilds results for
at most 4,000,000 cells over the whole workbook, with a warning for the
cells it skips. The Python part is read up to 64 MB and 1,000,000
scripts, a script is kept up to one character past what a cell may
hold, and the cells take at most 64 MB of code from the part in all,
since several formulas can name one script. io::enforce_python_limits
drops the code of a cell whose code doesn't fit in 8,192 characters as
PY(...) (the cell keeps its cached value, with a warning) and a kept
result that isn't a well-formed array within the cap, each with its
spill range and spilled values, so the sheet and a save no longer show
the old spill. Formats that keep PY() as an ordinary formula (xls, xlsb,
ods) are adopted the same way. Opening a file runs nothing.
The command-sequence fuzzer sets Python cells (code with xl()
references, quotes, line breaks, and code at and over the size limit),
and its xlsx round-trip check allows the Python errors becoming
#VALUE!, which is what the file format stores.
Tests: the written formula naming its script, the Python part with its
content type and relationship, return types, a spilling table saved as a
dynamic array, Python errors as #VALUE!, the round trip of values, code,
long code with quotes and line breaks and the error, and no Python part
without Python cells; a workbook laid out as the format specifies (an
index, a parameter named as %P2%) read as Python cells with their
spilled values and saved back with its code in a Python part; the
string-literal form; a formula naming a missing script, with and without
a Python part; 20,000 cells naming one long script against the code
budget; the part's reader and writer (escaping, odd %P tokens, a long
script, a repeated parameter); a blocker in the spill area giving #SPILL!
and clearing it spilling again; the native JSON round trip; a spill
range claiming the whole sheet; the workbook-wide budget; hostile JSON
(code over the limit, a result claiming far more cells than it holds); a
malformed result that never spills; PY() formulas at 8,079 and 8,080
characters of code. Calc: formulas, MAX, SUM, COUNTA and SUMPRODUCT read
a dirty Python cell whose array is blocked before its turn, in a full
and an incremental recalculation, and see the array once it is
unblocked; enforce_python_limits removes the spill of dropped code and
of a dropped result, and keeps a sound one.
…admap)
architecture.md gains a Python cells section: the model type, the text
forms and the size limit, the xlsx Python part, calc laying out kept
results as graph nodes, and the limits on open. file-format-parity.md
gains a Python cells table (xlsx as [MS-XLSX] 2.3.10 specifies, the
formula naming its code in the Python part, with cached values and
spills; other formats; GridCraft JSON; the limits on open; and
rich-value object results as not kept). function-parity.md marks the
four Python errors done with their ERROR.TYPE numbers and adds a Python
in cells row (stored, not run). ROADMAP.md records the progress. The
return types are written as "0 or 1" so no table cell holds an
unescaped pipe. architecture.md's "Last updated" label loses the space
inside its bold markers.
…d Excel Value
A Python cell's return type had no command of its own: python.set takes it,
but only together with the code. python.output {cell?, mode?} sets it on
its own, for the cell menu and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M. Without a mode it switches
to the other one, so the shortcut needs no parameters; a cell that isn't a
Python cell is an error. The cached result stays and is laid out again: a
Python object shows its type name in the cell, an Excel value the converted
value, and an array spills again. Each switch is one undo step, and setting
the mode a cell already has adds none.
python.set now refuses an output that isn't text instead of ignoring it.
The command-sequence fuzzer runs python.output too.
Python cells get an editing mode of their own in the formula bar, in the
code editor (monospace, Python colours). It starts with Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P
(Cmd+Option+Shift+P on macOS), with =PY then Tab as in Excel, or by
editing a Python cell (F2, a double-click, a click on the formula bar);
typing over a Python cell still replaces it. The shortcut again leaves
Python mode and keeps the text as an ordinary entry.
In Python mode Enter starts a new line with the indentation, Tab and
Shift+Tab indent, Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) commits the code
through python.set and Esc cancels. Every commit path of a Python edit
goes through python.set, the formula bar's Enter button and a click on
the sheet included. When the command refuses the code (longer than a
cell holds, a protected cell), its message shows and the edit stays open
with the code as typed. A Python cell's code committed unchanged writes
nothing (no undo step), as F2 then Enter on any other cell does. With
all the code deleted, the commit clears a Python cell through cell.set,
as an empty entry clears any other cell (code of spaces is still code);
on another cell it writes nothing. The formula bar shows while a Python
edit is open, also when View > Formula Bar hides it, since Python mode
edits only there. A Python draft records the window it was typed in,
as an ordinary draft does, so it is committed in that window when
another comes forward.
Python mode replaces the route that sent a changed edit of a Python
cell's code through python.set (EditState.code_edit and
commit_code_edit): every such edit now starts in Python mode, so that
route is removed, and leaving Python mode commits the text as an
ordinary entry through cell.set. The UI test of that route commits with
Ctrl+Enter, since Enter starts a new line in Python mode.
The keys are applied in input order with the typing, on main's
apply_in_order: the code editor takes a set of stop keys from its caller
(apply_in_order_until), so Ctrl+Enter, Esc and the shortcut act on the
text as it was when they were pressed. After a key the text field acts
on (select all), a stop key waits for the next pass with the editor's
keys before it, so select all, Tab and Ctrl+Enter in one frame commits
the indented code. Keyboard events after a stop key in the same pass are
dropped. code_field is the editor without its frame, for the bar.
The PY badge beside fx shows in Python mode and on a selected Python
cell; clicking it switches Python mode as the shortcut does.
ui.pythonMode {on?} does the same from the control channel, without a
dialog, and ui.inspect reports editor.python. Theme tokens badge_py,
on_badge, sheet_py_tag and on_sheet_py_tag join the contrast test.
Every Python cell carries a PY tag at its start, drawn with theme tokens
that follow the sheet (white in both themes). The cell's text stays clear
of the tag: it doesn't overflow leftwards over it, and text too wide for
the cell starts after it. The tag is painted in the grid's logical
coordinates like the rest of the cell, so the grid's mirroring puts it at
the cell's start on a right-to-left sheet, and the click test uses the
same rectangle through mirror_pos.
A click on the tag, Ctrl+Shift+F5 or ui.pythonCard opens a small card
for the cell (a cell inside a Python spill opens its anchor's). A cached
result shows its Python type, the return type and the preview, which
scrolls rather than wraps, so a table's columns stay lined up. A cell
showing #BLOCKED! says: This version of GridCraft stores Python code but
does not run it. The card sits under the cell, from its left edge, or
from its right edge on a right-to-left sheet. The type name is cut at 80
characters and the preview at 600 characters and 12 lines, so a huge
cached repr can't slow a frame. The card closes on Esc, a click
elsewhere, an edit, another sheet or workbook, or when its cell scrolls
out of view.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M (Cmd+Option+Shift+M on macOS) switches the active
Python cell between Python Object and Excel Value through python.output,
and does nothing on other cells. The cell menu of a Python cell lists both
return types with the current one marked.
The snapshot example takes --ui 'id={json}' to run commands through the
app (UI commands included) before the first frame.
The Formulas tab gets a Python group after the Function Library with one
control, Insert Python. It starts Python mode on the active cell, turns
an entry in progress into code, and leaves Python mode on when it already
is. Its key tip is MY (keytips.json, with the generated table and test
regenerated by cargo xtask keytips), and the key tip's letter is not
typed into the code.
The icon is drawn in code: a sheet cell with lines of code and the green
PY tag that Python cells carry. It copies no vendor icon or language
logo.
Python Mode (the PY badge), Python Object and Excel Value (the return
types on the card and in the cell menu), the card's sentence for a cell
this build doesn't run, and the Insert Python button and its tooltip, in
all 18 interface catalogs. cargo xtask i18n-report lists none of them as
missing.
…re, control protocol, roadmap)
ui-parity.md gains a Python cells row (Python mode, PY tags, the card,
the return-type switch) and a shortcut row for Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P,
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M and Ctrl+Shift+F5 with their Mac forms.
function-parity.md's Python in cells row names Python mode and
python.output. architecture.md describes Python mode on the shared
editor, code_field and its stop keys, and python_card.rs.
control-protocol.md lists ui.pythonMode and ui.pythonCard and the
editor's python flag in ui.inspect. ROADMAP.md records the progress.
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Review comments at @crates/xlsx/src/python_part.rs:
- Around line 74-85: Update the error handling in python_part::read so any
read_limited error warns that the Python part could not be read and returns the
existing output, preserving workbook opening and cell values; leave the TooLarge
and missing-part behavior unchanged.
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- Line 68: Clarify the `ui.pythonCard` entry’s error condition: it applies only
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crates/engine/src/cmd/whatif.rs
crates/engine/src/tests/python_cells.rs
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A damaged Python part makes the whole workbook fail to open.
python_part::read documents that a damaged part is a warning and its cells keep their values. Only IoError::TooLarge follows that rule. Any other error from read_limited, such as a Zip error from a corrupt entry, is returned with Err(e) => return Err(e). The caller in read_xlsx uses ? on that result, so the error stops the whole open. The parse-error branch in the same function already warns and keeps the scripts it read, so the propagating branch is inconsistent with the rest of the function.
A corrupt xl/python.xml entry, such as a bad deflate stream or a CRC mismatch, can produce this error. In that case the workbook cannot be opened, although its cell values are readable. The fix is to warn and keep the values, as the richdata call site already does.
🐛 Proposed fix
Err(IoError::TooLarge(m)) => {
cx.warn(format!("the Python part is too large ({m}); Python cells kept only their values"));
return Ok(out);
}
- Err(e) => return Err(e),+ Err(e) => {+ cx.warn(format!("the Python part could not be read ({e}); Python cells kept only their values"));+ return Ok(out);+ }
};
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let bytes = match cx.pkg.read_limited(&rel.target,MAX_PART_BYTES){
Ok(Some(b)) => b,
Ok(None) => {
cx.warn(format!("missing part {}", rel.target));
returnOk(out);
}
Err(IoError::TooLarge(m)) => {
cx.warn(format!("the Python part is too large ({m}); Python cells kept only their values"));
returnOk(out);
}
Err(e) => returnErr(e),
};
let bytes = match cx.pkg.read_limited(&rel.target,MAX_PART_BYTES){
Ok(Some(b)) => b,
Ok(None) => {
cx.warn(format!("missing part {}", rel.target));
returnOk(out);
}
Err(IoError::TooLarge(m)) => {
cx.warn(format!("the Python part is too large ({m}); Python cells kept only their values"));
returnOk(out);
}
Err(e) => {
cx.warn(format!("the Python part could not be read ({e}); Python cells kept only their values"));
returnOk(out);
}
};
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Review comment at @crates/xlsx/src/python_part.rs around lines 74 - 85:
Update the error handling in python_part::read so any read_limited error warns
that the Python part could not be read and returns the existing output,
preserving workbook opening and cell values; leave the TooLarge and missing-part
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| `ui.dialog` / `ui.dialog.set` / `ui.dialog.confirm` / `ui.dialog.cancel` | `{name}` / `{field, value}` | Open, fill in and confirm dialogs; `confirm` runs the dialog's command with the same parameters as its OK button |
| `ui.pythonMode` (via `engine.execute`) | `{on?}` | Python mode on the active cell, in the formula bar (an edit in progress keeps its text); `on: false` turns it off; without `on` it switches. Opens no dialog |
| `ui.pythonCard` (via `engine.execute`) | `{on?}` | Open the card of the active cell's Python cell (its cached result's type and preview), or close it with `on: false`; an error when the active cell isn't a Python cell, or while a cell is being edited |
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Scope the ui.pythonCard error condition.
ui.pythonCard returns {"open": false} immediately when on: false; it does not validate the active cell or edit state on that path. State that the error applies only when opening the card.
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Review comment at @docs/control-protocol.md at line 68:
Clarify the `ui.pythonCard` entry’s error condition: it applies only when
opening the card, not when `on: false` closes it. Preserve the documented
active-cell and editing-state conditions for opening.
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Summary
This pull request adds the interface for editing Python cells: a Python mode in the formula bar, a PY tag on Python cells, a card that shows a cell's cached result, the return-type switch, and Formulas › Python › Insert Python. It runs no Python code; a cell with new or changed code shows
#BLOCKED!, and the card says that this version stores Python code but does not run it. It replaces the editing parts of #482.It is stacked on #2637 (Python cells as data). Only the last six commits belong to this pull request; the first four are #2637's.
Changes
Python mode in the formula bar. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P (Cmd+Option+Shift+P on macOS) enters and leaves Python mode for the active cell, as in Excel; typing
=PYand then Tab also enters it, and so does editing a Python cell (F2, a double-click, or a click in the formula bar). In Python mode the formula bar shows a PY badge and edits the code in the code editor widget with Python colours. Enter starts a new line with the current indentation, Tab and Shift+Tab indent and outdent, Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) commits throughpython.set, and Esc cancels. Every commit of Python code goes throughpython.set, including the Enter button and a click on another cell. Whenpython.setrefuses the code (for example, code over the 8,192-character formula limit), the message is shown and the code stays in the editor. Committing empty code clears the cell throughcell.set; on a cell that is not a Python cell it writes nothing. The formula bar is shown while Python mode is open, also when View › Formula Bar hides it, and a Python draft belongs to the window it was typed in, as other drafts do.Key handling. The code editor applies a frame's keyboard events in their input order up to a stop key (commit, cancel, leave the mode). This keeps the custom Tab and Enter behaviour for every key event in a frame, including Ctrl+A followed by Tab, Shift+Tab, and a key event followed by text and Enter in one frame.
PY tag and card. Every Python cell carries a PY tag, drawn with theme tokens and mirrored on right-to-left sheets. A click on the tag, Ctrl+Shift+F5 or
ui.pythonCardopens a card for the cell. The card shows the cached result's type, the return type and a preview (capped at 80 characters for the type and 600 characters or 12 lines for the preview), or, for a#BLOCKED!cell, the sentence "This version of GridCraft stores Python code but does not run it."Protection. On a protected sheet, a Python cell whose format has Protection › Hidden shows nothing in the formula bar, and no edit entry point (F2, a double-click, a click in the formula bar, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P, the PY badge, Insert Python) loads its code;
display::formula_hiddencovers Python cells as it covers formulas.Return type. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M and two entries in the cell menu switch the active Python cell between Python Object and Excel Value, Excel's labels, through the new command
python.output {cell?, mode?}. With empty parameters the command switches the active cell, or returns an error when that cell is not a Python cell.Ribbon. Formulas › Python has one control, Insert Python, with an icon drawn in code and the key tip M, Y. It enters Python mode on the active cell.
Control channel.
ui.pythonMode {on?}andui.pythonCard {on?}open no dialog, andui.inspectreports whether the editor is in Python mode.Translations. The new strings are in every catalog.
Tests
#BLOCKED!, the right-to-left placement, the text caps.python.outputwith empty parameters.cargo xtask cipasses.Screenshots
[Image 1: Python mode in the formula bar with five lines of code and the PY badge.]
[Image 2: PY tags on Python cells, one showing a cached result and one showing
#BLOCKED!.][Image 3: the card for a cell with a cached DataFrame result.]
[Image 4: Formulas › Python › Insert Python.]
Generative AI use: The code and descriptions in this pull request were written with the assistance of Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code). I directed the work, chose its scope, and reviewed and tested the changes.
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#BLOCKED!; spill conflicts display#SPILL!.