xlwings & ExcelPython Zurich Python User Group Meetup

4 September 2014 Felix Zumstein

8 Years in Banking

Startup (Feb 2014)

About Me

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Goals

• Open-source (liberal license) • Portability/Deployment: Lightweight, no admin rights • Flexibility: regarding Versions, Architectures, IDEs, Python distros • Cross-platform

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xlwings (Win & Mac) •  Interactive Use • VBA Macro replacement

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ExcelPython (Win only) • UDFs: User Defined Formulas • Ability to expose functions from existing libraries as array formulas (e.g. NumPy)

xlwings.org

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ExcelPython: GitHub