Tag Archives: MatPlotlib

Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 9 – Special, distance, space and constants functions and FFT

In the final post in this series I will look at linking Excel to the Scipy special, distance, space and constants functions and also the Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT) functions. The py_Special-Dist and py_FFT spreadsheet, with associated Python code in PythonSpaceFuncs3.py … Continue reading

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3D plots with the latest Matplotlib

Installing Python on a new computer, I found I had to downgrade Matplotlib to release 3.5.2 to get my 3D plotting functions to work. Further investigation found that the problem was the Axes3D function. Changing:     ax = axes3d.Axes3D(fig)to: … Continue reading

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Installing Python and pyxll from scratch

Updated 28th September 2022. Matplotlib latest version OK. I recently installed Python and pyxll (plus the required additional libraries) on a new computer, which raised a few problems with incompatible versions, so here is a summary of what worked (as … Continue reading

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3D Matplotlib Plots in Excel

As well as Excel, the code shown in this post requires current versions of Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, and pyxll. The required import statements at the head of the Python code are: The spreadsheets and Python code described below may be … Continue reading

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More Matplotlib problems

Following an upgrade to some Python libraries, I found that problems with plotting from Matplotlib causing Python to crash were recurring (previously reported here). When called from Excel with pyxll this was also causing instant crashes of Excel. I eventually … Continue reading

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