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by bastih 1122 days ago
Other spreadsheets solve this by updating references if you need to add more columns and rows (or at least they try). Is the additional complexity of the infinite grid something that customers actually need?
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Updating references accross python scripts seems tricky. For example there would be no way to figure out how this code snippet should be updated if a row was added:

i = get(url).json()['index']

r = avar + offset

out = cell(r, i)

As to the question do customers need an infinite grid... I am asking myself the same question.