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I do all the time, mainly because of lock-in at work and family laptop. Python is really easy to do this with. But yes, web code gets deployed to a Linux box.

But you can do quite a bit from desktop application to the source of this post, DataNitro (Use Python in Excel).

> mostly use Visual Studio/.NET and just do Python on the side

I have nothing to back myself up, but I would be surprised if this is actually the case (ie most Windows users program with VS/.NET). I'd like to find out if there is any real data on this.