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Python editor window for Python cells; ui.pythonEditor (no code runs) - #2653
This pull request adds a Python editor window for Python cells. The window edits one cell's code in a larger, resizable area with line numbers, and commits it through python.set. It runs no Python code. It replaces #489.
It is stacked on #2639 (Python cells in the interface), which is stacked on #2637 (Python cells as data). Only the last four commits belong to this pull request.
Changes
Code editor. The code editor widget gains a line-number gutter, scrolled with the text, whose width follows the number of digits; only the rows in view are painted. An optional check accepts or refuses each edit in input order, so a refused edit is undone and the rest of the frame's typing still applies. Pasted \r\n and \r become \n.
Window.ui.pythonEditor {on?, cell?, force?} opens and closes the window, as do a button beside the formula bar's PY badge and the cell menu entry "Edit in Python Editor". The window shows the cell address, the return type, the code with line numbers and Python colours, a character count against the limit, and Apply and Close. Enter and Tab behave as in the formula bar's Python mode; Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) or Apply commits through python.set in the window's own workbook and keeps the window open.
Limits. Typing or pasting past the 8,192-character formula limit (PyCode::fits) is refused with a message; code that was already over the limit can still be shortened. With 8,000 characters of code, a frame takes about 1 ms.
Unsaved code. Esc, Close, another cell, File › Close, switching workbooks and every quit path (Quit and Cmd+Q, closing a workbook's last native window, the update restart) ask whether to apply or discard unsaved code; the question closes the File view so that it is in sight. A programmatic ui.pythonEditor, file.close, window.close or app.quit refuses instead (ui.pythonEditor and file.close accept force: true).
The target cell. The window follows its sheet when the sheet is moved or renamed, and refuses to write after the sheet is deleted. Apply writes only when the cell still holds what it held when the window opened (or last applied): if a row or column insertion, a sort or another edit changed or moved the cell, Apply writes nothing, keeps the code and says why. When the cell's code changes while the window has no unsaved typing (for example, after Undo), the window takes the new code and Apply edits it. In native-window mode the window is drawn only in its own workbook's window.
Protection. The window does not open on a hidden Python cell on a protected sheet, by any route, and closes if the sheet becomes protected while it shows such a cell (typed code is copied to the clipboard).
Translations. The new strings are in every catalog.
Tests
The window's routes (button, cell menu, ui.pythonEditor with and without force); editing and committing with Ctrl+Enter and Apply; Esc with and without changes; a refused commit keeping the code; the paste limit; text with accented letters and CJK characters through edits; the gutter width at 9, 10, 99 and 100 lines; switching cells and closing the workbook with unsaved code; the window at 600 × 400.
The target cell: a row inserted above it, a column inserted before it, its code changed from outside, an unrelated edit, a second Apply, Apply after Undo, and another Python cell sorted into its address.
Quitting with unsaved code by each path; the question closing the File view; the window staying in its workbook's native window while another workbook's window is drawn.
Protection: each route on a hidden cell, and protection applied while the window is open.
cargo xtask ci passes.
Screenshots
[Image 1: the Python editor window with about 40 lines of code.]
[Image 2: the window at 600 × 400.]
[Image 3: the formula bar's editor button beside the PY badge.]
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
Added Python cells with code editing in the formula bar or a dedicated editor window, plus a result card and controls for choosing how results are displayed.
Python cells can be copied, moved, recalculated alongside formulas, and saved in supported workbook formats. Existing Python code and cached results can be imported where available.
Added prompts to apply, discard, or cancel when closing with unsaved Python edits, and expanded Python-related interface translations.
Important Notes
Python code is not executed. New or changed code displays #BLOCKED! until execution is supported.
Python cells and results are subject to size limits; oversized or invalid content may be omitted when opening a workbook.
…! errors
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.
code_field gains three options for a larger editor. gutter puts line
numbers at the left of the code, inside the scroll area so they scroll
with it: one number per line of text, on the first row of a wrapped line,
right-aligned, with a rule between them and the code. Its width is the
last line's number of digits in the code font, so it widens at 10, 100
and 1,000 lines. Only the rows in view are painted: the rows above are
skipped with a binary search on their positions, so long code costs the
rows on screen. fill makes the field as tall as its scroll area, so a
click below the last line still lands in it.
accept lets the caller refuse an edit (it gets the text after and the
text before). apply_in_order_within checks each of the editor's own
edits on its own, in input order: a refused one is undone at once and
the pass goes on, so typing up to a limit keeps every character that
fits and a paste that would pass it is refused whole. The text field's
own edits (IME, undo, redo) are checked after it runs and undone the
same way. FieldOutput reports the gutter's width and whether an edit
was refused.
Pasted text with Windows (\r\n) or old Mac (\r) line breaks is inserted
with \n, as a cell's code is stored; a lone \r has no glyph.
The line helpers are pure functions with unit tests (line_count,
gutter_digits, the bounded apply, the pasted line breaks). There is no
error underline: nothing computes byte offsets into the text.
The formula bar shows at most five lines of code. The Python editor is a
resizable window for one Python cell's code, with line numbers and
Python colours. It opens from a button beside the formula bar's PY badge
(shown in Python mode and on a selected Python cell), from "Edit in
Python Editor" at the top of a Python cell's menu, and from the UI
command ui.pythonEditor {on?, cell?, force?}. Opened from Python mode it
takes the code typed so far, with its caret, and the formula bar's edit
ends. It shows the cell's address and its return type (Python Object or
Excel Value) above the code, and the keys, the code's length counted as
a PY formula, Apply and Close below it.
The window keeps its own copy of the code. Enter and Tab work as in
Python mode. Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) or Apply puts the code in
the cell through python.set, in the window's own workbook even when
another is active, and the window stays open; each apply is one undo
step. When python.set refuses (a table header, code that doesn't fit)
the code stays as typed and the command's message shows under it, in the
window. While the window has no changes of its own it follows the cell's
code (an undo, a commit from the formula bar); when it takes in the code
of a Python cell or an empty cell that way, it shows exactly what the
cell holds, so Apply's reference (below) follows the cell too, and
typing after an undo of Apply applies to the same cell. It follows its sheet when
sheets move or are renamed, and never takes another sheet for a deleted
one: Apply is then refused for want of the sheet, and an undo of the
deletion brings it back.
Apply writes only to the cell the window opened on. The window keeps
what the cell held when it opened it or last applied (a Python cell's
code and return type; another cell's formula, value or picture, not its
result or format), and Apply, from the button, the keys or the question
about unsaved changes, is refused when the cell holds something else: a
row or column inserted before it, inserted or deleted cells, a cut and
move, a sort or an undo can put another cell at its address, and its
code can change elsewhere. The code stays in the window, which says the
cell changed (before Apply too, once there are changes) and how to go
on. With unsaved changes in the window the reference never moves, even
when the code that arrives matches the typing: that typing was written
for the cell the window opened on. Opening the editor again on that
address starts afresh, after the usual question, and ui.pythonEditor
treats it the same way. An edit
anywhere else doesn't block Apply.
There is one editor at a time. Unsaved code is never discarded without
an answer: Esc, Close and the window's X, opening it on another cell (or
with other code from the formula bar), File > Close on its workbook,
the close button of its workbook's last native window, switching to
another workbook and quitting (the app window's close button, Quit or
Cmd+Q from the menu bar, the Dock or the system) first ask, in the
window, whether to Apply, Discard or Cancel; after Apply or Discard the
quit goes on and asks about each unsaved workbook. The restart for an
update waits for the code too. Cancel after a workbook switch goes
back to the code's workbook; Esc is Cancel. These questions are a state
of the window, so nothing programmatic opens a dialog: ui.pythonEditor
opens the window without a prompt and refuses to close it, or to open it
on another cell, while it has unsaved code, unless force: true discards
the code; file.close, window.close on the workbook's last window and
app.quit are refused for the same reason. An editor without
changes closes with its workbook or sheet, or when another workbook is
active. ui.inspect reports the window as pythonEditor.
With a native window per workbook window, each native window draws the
app with its own workbook active, so the editor is drawn only in its own
workbook's window: the one it opened in, or that workbook's most recent
one once it closes. Drawing another workbook's window neither closes a
clean editor nor counts as a switch that asks about unsaved code, and
Esc there doesn't answer the editor's question. A question the editor
asks, and an opening on another workbook's cell, bring its window
forward; the editor still closes when its workbook does.
The code can't grow past what a cell holds: the check python.set makes
(PyCode::fits, 8,192 characters as a PY formula) refuses typing and
pasting past it as it happens, with a message; code loaded longer than
that can still be shortened. Highlighting and the gutter stay cheap at
the limit: about 1 ms a frame with 8,052 characters in 195 lines, open
and typing, in the test build.
The window sits at the right below the formula bar, about 40 lines tall
when there is room, and stays inside the app window down to 600x400 (in
English and German), also after the app window shrinks. The keyboard
goes to the code once the window is drawn, and back to it after its
buttons are clicked. The button's icon is drawn in code: a window with a
column of line numbers beside lines of code.
The window's title, Edit in Python Editor (the formula bar button and
the cell menu), Unsaved changes, the questions about unsaved code (with
and without the workbook's name), the messages for code past the limit,
for a cell that changed while it was open (before Apply, and when Apply
is refused) and for code copied to the clipboard, the keys under the
code, and Apply, Discard and Cancel where a catalog lacked them, in all
18 interface catalogs. Placeholders ({cell}, {workbook}, {max},
{apply}) are kept in each.
…ontrol protocol, roadmap)
ui-parity.md gains a Python editor window row: its routes, line numbers,
Apply and Ctrl+Enter through python.set, the questions before unsaved
code is lost, the limit applied while typing and pasting, and the
600x400 fit; no error underline or output pane, since this build runs no
code. function-parity.md's Python in cells row names the window.
architecture.md describes python_window.rs, the code field's gutter and
accept check, and the questions as window state. control-protocol.md
lists ui.pythonEditor with force, the file.close refusal, and
pythonEditor in ui.inspect. ROADMAP.md records the progress.
This PR adds Python cells with stored code and cached results, Python commands, XLSX support, and formula-bar and window-based editing. It also adds cell tags and result cards, handles Python cells in recalculation and workbook operations, and documents that this build does not run Python code.
Changes: Python cell storage and calculation
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Summary
Cell data and retained-result calculation crates/model/src/*, crates/core/src/value.rs, crates/calc/src/*, docs/architecture.md
Cells store Python code and output metadata. Recalculation reads retained results and handles array spills. New error values include #PYTHON!, #BUSY!, #TIMEOUT!, and #BLOCKED!.
The engine adds python.set and python.output. Cell operations preserve or clear Python metadata according to the operation, rewrite supported xl() references, and report Python details through cell.get. Plain-file import adopts Python formulas and cached results subject to limits.
XLSX import and export crates/xlsx/src/*, crates/xlsx/src/tests/*, docs/file-format-parity.md
XLSX import reads Python scripts and restores eligible cached values and spills. Export writes Python scripts and indexed PY formulas. Import and export enforce size and result limits.
Python mode supports code editing from the formula bar. Cells display a PY tag and a result card with cached output details. Shortcuts, ribbon controls, keytips, and translations support these interactions.
Python editor window and close handling crates/ui-egui/src/code_editor.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/python_window.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/updates_ui.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/doc_windows.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/python_editor.rs, crates/ui-egui/examples/snapshot.rs, docs/ui-parity.md, ROADMAP.md
The resizable editor window applies code through python.set. It checks for changed cell content and input limits. Unsaved changes prompt before applicable user-driven close or switch actions; programmatic close requests can be refused. The snapshot example supports UI commands.
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant FormulaBar
participant PyWindow
participant PythonSet as python.set
participant Cell
User->>FormulaBar: Enter Python mode
FormulaBar->>PyWindow: Open editor for cell
User->>PyWindow: Edit code and Apply
PyWindow->>PythonSet: Submit code
PythonSet->>Cell: Store Python code and retained result
Two small edge-case fixes are worth making before or shortly after merge. Opening an XLSX whose Python script part is missing or too large blanks the cached spill values below the anchor. Merge Across can leave hidden Python code in merged-over cells. Neither affects the core Python-cell storage or editing flows.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2b763
Python remains stored data rather than executable code, and edits retain existing protection checks. The main concern is that sheet replacement can redirect a pending editor write. Some external-caller and import-resource coverage remains incomplete.
Retained concerns
Low · reliability · inferred: The editor identifies its sheet through name, index and sheet-count heuristics, while its stale-write guard compares cell contents rather than logical identity. A deleted sheet recreated with the same name and matching baseline contents can therefore receive the old draft; deletion and replacement between synchronization frames can also resemble a rename. This weakens the pending write's ownership guarantee. Normal deletion, content-change and protection checks provide containment, and no privilege bypass is established.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — A crafted workbook can reach parsing, retained-result adoption and calculation through filesystem or base64 input. The inspected exposure concerns workbook integrity and resource use in the receiving application process, not newly granted Python execution authority. Out-of-repository library consumers remain unverified.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — file.open assigns FromFile trust, which does not automatically permit active code. Python edits pass through workbook-copy protection checks that compare source and output mode, so changing only Python code remains subject to locked-cell enforcement.
observed — The normal editor UI checks hidden-code policy when opening and synchronizes protection before drawing Apply controls. Newly hidden code closes the editor; dirty text is copied to the clipboard as recovery behavior. The public control command exposes opening and closing, not an Apply operation.
observed — XLSX Python-part reading ignores external relationships and limits the part to 64 MiB. Script and aggregate code budgets constrain adoption, while rebuilt retained spills have per-result and workbook-wide cell budgets.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Native JSON is materialized before Python-specific validation, so those limits do not bound initial deserialization allocations. Direct workbook deserialization and the file.open transport existed at the supplied base; this is not established as a newly introduced security condition.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Bind editor drafts to a durable sheet identity or lifecycle generation, and invalidate the binding on replacement. Preserve intentional undo recovery without accepting an unrelated same-name sheet solely because its contents match.
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Merge Across keeps Python code in the merged-over cells.
This PR changed the Merge & Center branch (Line 668) to call cell.clear_content(). The "across" branch still clears only value and formula. A Python cell in a non-first column of a merged row therefore keeps its py. On the next recalculation, Calc::rebuild treats that cell as a graph node. The pass then lays out its kept result again, so a value comes back under the merge. The code also stays hidden in the cell and is written to the xlsx Python part. Use the same helper in both branches.
🐛 Proposed fix
if let Some(mut cell) = sh.cells.get(c).cloned() {
- cell.value = gridcraft_core::Value::Empty;- cell.formula = None;+ cell.clear_content();
sh.set_cell(c, cell);
}
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/format.rs around lines 650 - 651:
Update the “across” merge branch to call `cell.clear_content()` for each
merged-over cell instead of clearing only `value` and `formula`, so Python code
is removed as well.
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Review comments at @crates/xlsx/src/sheet_read.rs:
- Around line 531-545: Update the spilled_from match so cached child values
remain plain values when the range anchor has neither a formula nor Python code;
preserve the existing behavior for active Python anchors and formula spills. Add
a test that opens a PY(5,0) spilling anchor with a Python part containing one
script and verifies the child values survive.
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Keep the cached spill values when the Python anchor was demoted to its cached value.
Some PY(i,n) cells name a script that the reader cannot provide. This happens when the Python part is missing, too large or damaged, when the code budget is exhausted, or when the index is out of range. For such a cell, cell_code returns PyFormula::Missing, and the anchor loses both formula and py. read_formula already called push_dynamic for the anchor's cm/ref range, so dynamic_range still finds that range for each spill child.
The guard at Line 536 requires a.py.is_some(), so these children fall into the Some(_) => Value::Empty arm. That arm exists for real formulas, which fill the range again on recalculation. A demoted anchor has no formula, so nothing fills the range again. The result:
The anchor keeps its cached value.
Every other cell of the spilled result opens blank.
A save writes those cells as blank.
The module doc says such a cell "keeps only its cached value". Nothing tells the user that the rest of the spilled result is gone. If the Python part exceeds MAX_PART_BYTES, every spilling Python cell in the workbook is affected.
When the anchor has neither a formula nor Python code, keep the child's cached value as a plain value.
🐛 Proposed fix
Some(r) if r.count() <= gridcraft_model::python::MAX_RESULT_CELLS as u64 && sheet.cells.get(r.start).is_some_and(|a| a.py.is_some()) => {
if !value.is_empty() {
sheet.spill.insert(pos, value);
}
sheet.spill_ranges.insert(r.start, r);
Value::Empty
}
+ // The anchor lost its formula (a Python cell naming a script the part lacks): nothing+ // will fill the range again, so the cached values stay as plain values.+ Some(r) if sheet.cells.get(r.start).is_some_and(|a| a.formula.is_none() && a.py.is_none()) => value,
Some(_) => Value::Empty,
None => value,
Add a test that opens a PY(5,0) spilling anchor against a Python part with one script, and asserts that the child values survive.
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let spilled_from = if formula.is_none() && py.is_none(){dynamic_range(st, pos)}else{None};
let value = match spilled_from {
// A Python cell's spilled values are kept: they are its result until it runs again. A
// range larger than a result may be is a crafted file's: its values are dropped, like a
// formula's spilled values, and no spill is recorded.
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Review comment at @crates/xlsx/src/sheet_read.rs around lines 531 - 545:
Update the spilled_from match so cached child values remain plain values when
the range anchor has neither a formula nor Python code; preserve the existing
behavior for active Python anchors and formula spills. Add a test that opens a
PY(5,0) spilling anchor with a Python part containing one script and verifies
the child values survive.
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Summary
This pull request adds a Python editor window for Python cells. The window edits one cell's code in a larger, resizable area with line numbers, and commits it through
python.set. It runs no Python code. It replaces #489.It is stacked on #2639 (Python cells in the interface), which is stacked on #2637 (Python cells as data). Only the last four commits belong to this pull request.
Changes
Code editor. The code editor widget gains a line-number gutter, scrolled with the text, whose width follows the number of digits; only the rows in view are painted. An optional check accepts or refuses each edit in input order, so a refused edit is undone and the rest of the frame's typing still applies. Pasted
\r\nand\rbecome\n.Window.
ui.pythonEditor {on?, cell?, force?}opens and closes the window, as do a button beside the formula bar's PY badge and the cell menu entry "Edit in Python Editor". The window shows the cell address, the return type, the code with line numbers and Python colours, a character count against the limit, and Apply and Close. Enter and Tab behave as in the formula bar's Python mode; Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) or Apply commits throughpython.setin the window's own workbook and keeps the window open.Limits. Typing or pasting past the 8,192-character formula limit (
PyCode::fits) is refused with a message; code that was already over the limit can still be shortened. With 8,000 characters of code, a frame takes about 1 ms.Unsaved code. Esc, Close, another cell, File › Close, switching workbooks and every quit path (Quit and Cmd+Q, closing a workbook's last native window, the update restart) ask whether to apply or discard unsaved code; the question closes the File view so that it is in sight. A programmatic
ui.pythonEditor,file.close,window.closeorapp.quitrefuses instead (ui.pythonEditorandfile.closeacceptforce: true).The target cell. The window follows its sheet when the sheet is moved or renamed, and refuses to write after the sheet is deleted. Apply writes only when the cell still holds what it held when the window opened (or last applied): if a row or column insertion, a sort or another edit changed or moved the cell, Apply writes nothing, keeps the code and says why. When the cell's code changes while the window has no unsaved typing (for example, after Undo), the window takes the new code and Apply edits it. In native-window mode the window is drawn only in its own workbook's window.
Protection. The window does not open on a hidden Python cell on a protected sheet, by any route, and closes if the sheet becomes protected while it shows such a cell (typed code is copied to the clipboard).
Translations. The new strings are in every catalog.
Tests
ui.pythonEditorwith and withoutforce); editing and committing with Ctrl+Enter and Apply; Esc with and without changes; a refused commit keeping the code; the paste limit; text with accented letters and CJK characters through edits; the gutter width at 9, 10, 99 and 100 lines; switching cells and closing the workbook with unsaved code; the window at 600 × 400.cargo xtask cipasses.Screenshots
[Image 1: the Python editor window with about 40 lines of code.]
[Image 2: the window at 600 × 400.]
[Image 3: the formula bar's editor button beside the PY badge.]
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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