Category Archives: NumPy and SciPy

Multiple Integration with Scipy

Posted on January 31, 2019 by

Scipy has 3 functions for multiple numerical integration in the scipy.integrate module: dblquad: Compute a double integral. tplquad: Compute a triple integral’ nquad: Integration over multiple variables. I have written six functions to call these functions from Excel, via Pyxll: Each … Continue reading →

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More SciPy Solvers

Posted on December 19, 2018 by

The xlwings Scipy spreadsheet has been updated with a new example of the xl_SolveF function, that uses the Scipy Optimize root function.  The new spreadsheet can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The new example uses a python function ic_calc (included in the … Continue reading →

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Python Problems

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

I have recently returned to using Pyxll to link Excel to Python (of which more later), which required the installation of a 32 bit version of Python 3.7.  First trials after installation returned the message: “AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no … Continue reading →

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More iterative solvers

Posted on October 28, 2018 by

Following the recent post on using Brent’s Method solvers on an array (Iterative solvers and arrays), here is another example with an engineering related problem.  The example is included in the xlScipy3 spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The depth … Continue reading →

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Iterative solvers and arrays

Posted on October 21, 2018 by

A recent thread at Eng-Tips was looking for a solution to the problem described  below: The solutions to this problem described below can be downloaded from: ItSolve.zip and xlScipy3.zip The ItSolve.xlsb spreadsheet contains a user defined function (UDF) to solve iterative … Continue reading →

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Working with units in Excel – using VBA and Python

Posted on July 15, 2018 by

One of the most frequent reasons given for not using Excel for engineering and scientific applications is its very limited  facilities for dealing with calculations involving units.  It is possible to overcome this deficiency with VBA (see  Daily Download 24: … Continue reading →

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Scipy Statistics Functions – coding and getting help

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

The Python Scipy library currently has 84 statistics functions.  I have now updated the xlwSciPy3 spreadsheet to access all of them directly from Excel.  The new version can be downloaded from: xlwSciPy3.zip As usual, the download includes full open-source code.  … Continue reading →

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