Python for SMF?

Could I utilize Python for SMF?

I have done some work with calling python modules from within Excel.  My issue has been that I have been unable to write to the currently open workbook.

For myself, I use python to get market data and data from IB (Interactive Brokers) and I write some of that data to Excel files.  It is quite easy to for python to read, create and modify data in Excel files.

There are add-ins to do this like PyXLL or XLWings, but they are somewhat commercial products.  I say somewhat since PyXLL has a 30 day demo and XLWings has an open source version that is free if somewhat feature limited.  In the spirit of Randy's SMF Add-In, I am working on a open source and free way of implementing python solutions for Stock Market Functions.

Some ideas that I am testing are creating some python utilities to do some of the work of the SMF Add-In that could work alongside of it.  Use it to get slow or hard to get data, write it to CSV or XLSX files that can be linked to a Stock Dashboard or other Workbook that can utilize that data.