Tag Archives: Numpy

The meaning of = in Python

Posted on 26/02/2017 by dougaj4

In VBA, if you have an array named a and a variant named b, then the statement “b = a” creates a new array b with the same size and values as a.  If the values of either a or b are subsequently changed, the values of the … Continue reading →

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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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