Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately I cannot use a different format for the data since I'm
really using Excel as a calculation engine. I don't own the authoring
of these spreadsheets or even the data inside of them so I cannot
change the format. The spreadsheets also are complicated enough and
c
Disclaimer: I am not an expert in python, or even programming, for that
matter
In any case, option #2 sounds like the most theoretically sound. It
sounds like you are using Excel as a database, and your worker thread
as a transaction queue.
Something to consider: do you really need to modify