Tag Archives: UDFs

Python callable arguments from Excel

Posted on 29/01/2021 by dougaj4

Many Scipy functions have “callable” arguments, i.e. functions that can be called, with the returned data used as input by the calling function. Types of callable arguments include: Functions in the active Python module Functions in any active loaded library … Continue reading →

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Python optional arguments from Excel – Part 2

Posted on 19/01/2021 by dougaj4

The previous post provided a method for using pyxll to pass optional arguments from Excel to Python whilst preserving the default values of any called Python function for arguments that were omitted in the Excel function. One condition where this … Continue reading →

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Using Python optional arguments from Excel with pyxll

Posted on 14/01/2021 by dougaj4

Python functions allow optional arguments to be specified by allocating a default value to each optional argument. The pyxll add-in allows Python functions called from Excel to work in the same way, so any argument with a default value may … Continue reading →

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Units4Excel Update

Posted on 29/12/2020 by dougaj4

As discussed here, I have updated the Units4Excel spreadsheet, with the list of non-SI units updated from the latest Wikipedia table. The EvalU user defined function (UDF) has also been modified with three output options, as shown in the screen-shot … Continue reading →

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Extracting text from an Internet table

Posted on 11/12/2020 by dougaj4

For use in my Units spreadsheet (Units4Excel) I want to extract the unit conversion values from the comprehensive Wikipedia unit conversion table. On Wikipedia the table looks like this: and when copied and pasted as Unicode text into Excel, like … Continue reading →

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