Using docstrings with UDF

[DougAJ4]

Is it possible to add argument descriptions for UDFs, as well as the description of the function?

The code seems to allow for this, but the udf.py example does not include argument descriptions, and I can't get it to work.

[fzumstein]

yes, function description are possible using simple docstrings but arg descriptions are currently broken, see #312

[DougAJ4]

Thanks for the quick response. It will be an excellent addition when fixed!

I have been using ExcelPython for over a year now (and Pyxll before that),
but have just started with xlwings. The good news is that all my
ExcelPython udfs seem to work with minimal changes under xlwings (i.e. just
replace the ExcelPython module with xlwings module).

You might like a look at my first xlwings effort at:
https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/use-matplotlib-from-excel-with-xlwings/

Thanks again.

Doug

On 17 February 2016 at 10:22, Felix Zumstein notifications@github.com
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yes, function description are possible using simple docsteings but arg
descriptions are currently broken, see #312
https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings/issues/312

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[fzumstein]

yes, saw that, thanks a lot for this blog post! We're currently working on a bigger release that amongst other things streamlines the behaviour of the old xlwings with the ExcelPython part. So hopefully we can include the fix for argdocs in there.

[fzumstein]

fixed by #589