Tag Archives: dictionaries

Passing variable argument lists from Excel to Python via xlwings

Posted on June 8, 2018 by dougaj4

When calling a Python function it is sometimes necessary to pass a variable number of arguments.  Examples from the xlw_Scipy spreadsheet include: Curve fitting functions, for which the functions to be fitted may have any number of arguments. The Scipy … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.7

Posted on April 17, 2016 by dougaj4

Following recent posts on xlwings 0.7.1, dictionaries, and optional arguments and xlwings – dataframes and statistics, I have added the associated functions and examples to the xlwSciPy spreadsheet, and also updated it to xlwings 0.71. The new spreadsheet can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, Python Pandas, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

xlwings 0.7.1, dictionaries, and optional arguments

Posted on April 8, 2016 by dougaj4

xlwings 0.7.0 was published at the beginning of March, and introduced direct support for Python dictionaries, which I have used to demonstrate various options for dealing with optional arguments in Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs).  The latest version, 0.7.1, published … Continue reading →

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