Category Archives: Link to Python

Using Excel with Python and ctypes

Posted on October 5, 2020 by

The Strand7 API provides an interface between the Strand7 Finite Element Analysis program and external software. It works with many different languages, including Python, which uses ctypes to transfer data to and from the API functions. It is essential that … Continue reading →

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Getting near matches from a list with Python

Posted on April 19, 2020 by

To return a list of near matches from a long list of strings would be quite difficult in VBA (unless I’m missing something), but in Python it is very simple.  Here is the code for this operation, using pyxll to … Continue reading →

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Stepping through Python code called from Excel

Posted on March 31, 2020 by

Setting up your editor to allow Python code debugging for functions called from Excel can be tricky, depending on the details of your editor and linking software, but using the Visual Studio Code Editor and Pyxll, this works for me: … Continue reading →

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More Python Traps

Posted on March 30, 2020 by

I recently posted on some Python Traps, focussing on code where changes in the values of sub-routine arguments were not reflected in the calling routines.  The reverse can also be a problem: if an array, a, is passed to a … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Python Resources

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

In addition to the documentation of their software products, Microsoft now have a huge amount of on-line resources of more general content, including: YouTube: Python for Beginners Probably the largest hurdle when learning any new programming language is simply knowing … Continue reading →

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