Tag Archives: Numpy

Transferring and converting strings in Excel and Python

Posted on 26/12/2016 by dougaj4

The load table for the 3D Frame spreadsheet has a column listing the global axis for each load as text (X, Y, or Z).  In the VBA version the table is converted to a variant array, and the axes are handled … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.7

Posted on 17/04/2016 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 →

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Numpy and Scipy for Excel

Posted on 14/12/2014 by dougaj4

The Python Numpy and Scipy libraries contain a huge number of maths and science related functions.  Most of these are not directly available from Excel, but using the free ExcelPython package it is fairly easy to make the link, vastly increasing … Continue reading →

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The angle between two vectors, Python version

Posted on 01/03/2014 by dougaj4

I posted a VBA function to return The angle between two vectors, in 2D or 3D last year, and have just discovered that Python and Numpy are lacking this function.  Since all the suggested code I found in a quick search used: Cos θ … Continue reading →

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The speed of loops in Python

Posted on 24/01/2014 by dougaj4

This post is based on exercises published by Cyrille Rossant in his book “Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization”.  Cyril also has a blog well worth looking at: http://cyrille.rossant.net/blog/ (Thanks to Alfred Vachris and Boris Vishnevsky for the links). … Continue reading →

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