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Spilling is the process where a formula returns more than one value and fills up one or more adjacent cells. This is a standard feature of Google Sheets but proves extremely useful when returning tables from Python. In this tutorial we'll play around with emojis, but the same principles work for dataframes and other data structures.
Open the Neptyne sidebar, and paste the following code into the editor in the top right section.
You can test out the function by running random_emojis() in the REPL at the bottom right of the sidebar. Notice that this returns an array with 1 emoji. If you type random_emojis(4) youāll get an array with 4 emojis!
Now letās add it to the spreadsheet. In B1, enter 1. In A1 enter: =PY("random_emojis", B1) This will call the python function random_emojis, and pass B1 as the first parameter, n. You should see an emoji in A1! But why isn't it wrapped in a list?
Change B1 to 4, youāll notice that you have emojis from A1:A4. Thatās because when using the Neptyne extension, list values will spill and fill as many cells as needed in a downwards direction.
Spilling can happen across columns too. Multidimensional arrays can spill in two directions. Run multi_dim_array(3,2) in the REPLĀ and notice that it generates nested arrays. When you move it into the sheet by putting in C1: =Py("multi_dim_array", 3, 2) it spills to 3 rows and 2 columns.
Many more types will spill such as pandas dataframes or dictionaries will spill, so you have many different options for loading your data into the sheet! Try swapping the expression in C1 to =Py("sample_df") and notice that this spills into a table!
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