What is xlwings?
Replace your VBA code with Python, a powerful yet easy-to-use programming language that is highly suited for numerical analysis. Supports Windows & Mac!
xlwings is a tool in the Spreadsheets as a Backend category of a tech stack.
xlwings is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to xlwings's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses xlwings?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use xlwings in their tech stacks, including Amp X, Tong Holdings, and DataOps.
Developers
32 developers on StackShare have stated that they use xlwings.
xlwings's Features
- Easy deployment: The receiver of an xlwings-powered spreadsheets only needs Python with minimal dependencies — or nothing at all when shipped with the Python runtime.
- Cross-Platform: xlwings works with Microsoft Excel on Windows and Mac.
- Plug-and-Play: No cumbersome installation of Excel add-ins or license keys.
- Flexible: Works with pretty much every combination of Excel and Python.
- Two way communication: Call Python from Excel or interact with Excel from Python.
- Free and open-source: xlwings is released under a permissive BSD-License.
xlwings Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to xlwings?
DataNitro
Build live streaming dashboards and complex mathematical models, all in Excel. You can use DataNitro to turn a spreadsheet into a database GUI - or a web server backend.
PyXLL
Integrate Python into Microsoft Excel.
Use Excel as your user-facing front-end with calculations, business logic and data access powered by Python.
Works with all 3rd party and open source Python packages. No need to write any VBA!
Pandas
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
