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Xlwings and Excel

The document provides information about a presentation on the xlwings Python library for interacting with Excel. The presentation will cover how to use xlwings to: 1) Script and interact with Excel from Python 2) Create macros in Excel using Python 3) Define custom functions in Excel (UDFs) using Python

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Xlwings and Excel

The document provides information about a presentation on the xlwings Python library for interacting with Excel. The presentation will cover how to use xlwings to: 1) Script and interact with Excel from Python 2) Create macros in Excel using Python 3) Define custom functions in Excel (UDFs) using Python

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xlwings: Python & Excel

• For Python Quants Conference


• New York City

May 6th, 2016 Felix Zumstein


Material

• For the material presented during the


demos (Part 1 &3), see:
https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings_noteboo
ks/tree/master/for_python_quants_conference_nyc_2
0160506

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About me

• Consultancy (Zurich):
– Analytical apps for Excel & web
– Open-source: xlwings

• Previously:
– 9yrs in Banking /Asset Management
– Background: Finance & Economics

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The open-source Python/Excel Landscape

Reading/
Writing

Programming/
Interacting

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xlwings Features

1 Scripting/Interaction

2 Macros

3 User Defined Functions (UDFs)

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1 Scripting/Interaction
GDP per capita

Source of xls file:


http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD

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2 Macros
Monte Carlo Simulation

simulation.py

xlwings_app.py web_app.py

Source Code: https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/simulation-demo


Hosted Sample: www.zoomeranalytics.com/simulation-demo

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3 UDFs
DJIA: Correlation Analysis

Excel’s Correlation formula accepts just 2 data sets:

=CORREL(array1, array2)

Here’s how we’re going to fix this:

• Add CORREL2 to get the full correlation matrix


• Visual representation: Heatmap

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Summary
(1) Easy Installation

• pip/conda install xlwings


• included in:

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(2) Cross-Platform

+
(except UDFs)

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(3) Flexibility

Version Architecture Version Architecture

2.6 32-bit 2003 32-bit


2.7 64-bit 2010 64-bit
3.3 2011 (Mac)
3.4 2013
3.5 2016 (Win + Mac)

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(4) Simplicity
>>>  from xlwings import Workbook,  Range

>>>  wb =  Workbook()


>>>  Range("A1").value  =  my_variable

• Strings
• Numbers
• DateTime
• Lists (nested)
• NumPy arrays
• Pandas DataFrames
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(5) Powerful built-in Converters/Options

Range("A1").options(pd.DataFrame).value

@xw.func
@xw.arg("x",  pd.DataFrame)
def myfunction(x):
return x

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(6) Prototype analytical web apps

vs.

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Questions?

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