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Rehearsal: Python cells as data (stored, edited and saved; no code runs) - #35
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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 formula form Microsoft documents,
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 Excel writes (and
`_xlfn.` or `_xlws.` alone, in any letter case); to_file_formula
writes it. The size limit is Excel's 8,192 characters for the encoded
file 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.
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 unchanged; Paste Values and Paste Link do not, 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. 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, cut-move and column delete, native JSON round trips, the new
errors, the prefixes, and the encoded size limit at 8,192 characters
exactly and with doubled quotes.
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Walkthrough
The change adds Python cells as stored, editable cell content. Cells retain code and cached results, participate in editing and recalculation, and can be read from and written to supported workbook formats. This build stores Python code but does not execute it.
Changes: Python cells as stored data
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Summary
Cell model and Python formula representation crates/model/src/cell.rs, crates/model/src/python.rs, crates/model/src/sheet.rs, crates/model/src/store.rs, crates/core/src/value.rs
Cells now have an optional Python-code payload with output metadata and stale state. Formula conversion, Python error values, content checks, and spill clearing are added.
python.set stores code without executing it and assigns #BLOCKED! to new or changed code. Cell editing, filling, reference updates, inspection, and content comparison now handle Python cells. The UI submits edits through python.set.
Cached results and spill recalculation crates/calc/src/recalc.rs, crates/calc/src/tests.rs
Python cells with kept results become dependency-free graph nodes. Recalculation uses cached scalar results and registers valid, bounded array results as spills.
File handling adopts recognized Python formulas and cached results within size limits. XLSX output includes Python formulas and cached values. Tests and documentation cover serialization, spills, and import limits.
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant PythonSet
participant Cell
participant PassHost
participant Sheet
User->>PythonSet: submit code and output mode
PythonSet->>Cell: store code and blocked value
PassHost->>Cell: read kept result
PassHost->>Sheet: register valid array result as spill
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Merge Risk: Low · up to 3cbd4
Merge Across can leave Python code in hidden cells. This is a bounded issue, but the branch should clear that code before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 3cbd4
The reviewed calculation paths use cached results rather than executing Python, and imports apply code-size and result-shape limits. XLSX exports deliberately preserve Python formulas for compatible applications. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but recovery paths and downstream execution policies were not fully verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — An untrusted workbook can supply code and cached-result metadata to the importing application and carry retained code onward in an XLSX export. The reviewed internal consumer uses cached values; execution in a compatible external application depends on that application's policies and was not verified.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Import rejects code exceeding the encoded formula limit and drops malformed or oversized cached arrays. Cached-spill reconstruction has a one-million-cell per-result limit and a four-million-cell aggregate adoption budget; calculation independently checks array shape and size.
observed — General formula export predates this PR. The new Python-specific serializer therefore establishes format support, but does not alone demonstrate that a previously enforced downstream execution restriction was bypassed.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The inspected file.open path performs full recalculation when constructing the document. Full recalculation clears old spill values and ranges before laying out current results, countering the suspected path from hostile retained ranges directly into incremental old-range traversal.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Make the scope of the data-only guarantee explicit: Python does not execute in this application, but a full-fidelity XLSX export preserves active PY formulas for compatible consumers. This is clarification and hardening, not a verified vulnerability.
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Merge Across keeps Python code in the cells it empties.
The home.mergeAcross branch at Lines 650-652 clears only value and formula for the non-first cells of each row. It does not clear py. The default branch at Line 668 now calls clear_content(), so the two merge paths no longer agree.
A Python cell inside a merged-across row therefore keeps its code, and has_content() stays true. The cell is also added to touched. Recalculation then lays out the kept Python result into the hidden cell again. XLSX export writes its PY(…) formula too. This breaks the rule in the comment on Line 646: only the first value of each row survives.
Use the same helper as the other branch.
🐛 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 comments at @crates/calc/src/recalc.rs:
- Line 1261: Update PassHost’s pending read path to include dirty Python cell
keys so formula reads observe their recalculated values; update cell_value,
range_values, and visit_range to evaluate Python cells instead of treating their
cached values as constants, preserving the existing recalculation and spill
behavior.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/io.rs:
- Around line 190-230: Update enforce_python_limits to remove and clear the
rejected anchor’s spill range in both the overlong-code and invalid-output
branches, alongside clearing cell.py or py.output. Use the existing spill_ranges
and clear_spill mechanisms so rejected Python cells leave no adopted spill
state.
Review comments at @crates/model/src/cell.rs:
- Around line 98-102: Update the changed-text path in commit_edit_here for
Python cells so it preserves the cell and cached result by routing the new text
to python.set as code; alternatively, block this edit path for Python cells.
Keep the existing untouched F2/Enter behavior unchanged.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/format.rs:
- Around line 650-652: In the `home.mergeAcross` branch, replace the manual
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ROADMAP.md
crates/calc/src/recalc.rs
crates/core/src/value.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/analysis.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/extra.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/forecast.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/format.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/formulas.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/inspect.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/pivot.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/python.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/sheet.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/solver.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/whatif.rs
crates/engine/src/fill.rs
crates/engine/src/io.rs
crates/engine/src/pivot.rs
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/tests/python_cells.rs
crates/engine/src/tests/python_commands.rs
crates/engine/src/tests/python_files.rs
crates/engine/tests/it/command_sequence_fuzz.rs
crates/model/src/cell.rs
crates/model/src/lib.rs
crates/model/src/python.rs
crates/model/src/sheet.rs
crates/model/src/store.rs
crates/xlsx/src/csv.rs
crates/xlsx/src/sheet_read.rs
crates/xlsx/src/sheet_write.rs
crates/xlsx/src/tests/locale_numfmt.rs
crates/xlsx/src/tests/phonetic_tests.rs
crates/xlsx/src/tests/pivot_tests.rs
crates/xlsx/src/tests/roundtrip.rs
crates/xlsx/src/xls/mod.rs
docs/architecture.md
docs/file-format-parity.md
docs/function-parity.md
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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 stored 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.
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.
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Review comments at @crates/calc/src/recalc.rs:
- Around line 715-721: Update spill_blocked to exclude anchors present in
host.python from stale spill-range checks, matching its existing host.exprs
exclusion. Add a regression test where a Python array spill is followed by an
array formula entered inside its range; the new formula should spill and the
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…pening limits
A Python cell is written to xlsx as Excel writes it,
_xlfn._xlws.PY("chunk"&"chunk",0|1), with string literals of at most
255 characters, 0 for an Excel value and 1 for a Python object,
together with 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, reading the formula's
own text so line breaks in the code survive, and 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. io::enforce_python_limits drops the code of a cell whose
PY() formula doesn't fit in 8,192 characters (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 with Excel's prefix, 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; a
sheet as Excel writes it read as a Python cell with its spilled values;
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 file
forms and the encoded size limit, calc laying out kept results as graph
nodes, and the limits on open. file-format-parity.md gains a Python cells
table (xlsx with Excel's _xlfn._xlws.PY prefix and 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.
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Rehearsal of the first part of a series before it is proposed upstream: four commits on the current upstream main. Not for merging.
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