Tag Archives: dictionaries

Passing variable argument lists from Excel to Python via xlwings

Posted on June 8, 2018 by

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

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

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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