Tag Archives: Python

Evaluating text and Integration with Python and ALGLIB

Following the previous post on evaluating mathematical functions entered as text on the spreadsheet, I have now written a spreadsheet with similar functionality using Python functions, and the Excel-Python add-in.  Also included are integration functions using the SciPy Python library, … Continue reading

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Data Transfer to Python – Update

As noted in the comments here, the main bottleneck in the Python matrix solver functions presented recently was not in the data transfer from Excel, but rather in the creation of the Numpy arrays for very long lists of short … Continue reading

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Two Timers

The simplest way to check the execution time of VBA code is with the built in Timer function, but this returns a single precision value in seconds, resulting in a minimum time step of about 10 milliseconds.  For VBA code … Continue reading

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Linking to Python with Excel-Python, and Python matrix functions

I have been experimenting for a few weeks with a new package linking Excel to Python, by the name of ExcelPython.  Here is what the author says about it: “ExcelPython is a lightweight, easily distributable library for interfacing Excel and … Continue reading

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Dynamic sorting with Excel, VBA, and Python

A spreadsheet with User Defined Functions (UDFs) to dynamically sort a range of data has previously been presented here and here. I have now modified the Python version of the UDF for improved functionality, added a second Python function, and … Continue reading

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