[listenallyall]

I'll stick with bash-j's own words, where he bragged about running a python script "forever", and not your interpretation of his words. I'm also going to dismiss what you "think [I] assumed that they meant"

However, if you, or bash-j, believe Excel is incapable of avoiding manual data updates, that's simply not correct. Excel provides at least 3 ways of bypassing manual data entry in favor of automated imports from an external data source -- VBA code, ODC (not to be confused with ODBC) data connection definitions, and PowerQuery (I think that is the current name, haven't used it in a long time).