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PyXLL vs SciPy: What are the differences?
Developers describe PyXLL as "The Python Add-In for Microsoft Excel". 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!. On the other hand, SciPy is detailed as "Scientific Computing Tools for Python". Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It contains modules for optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, special functions, FFT, signal and image processing, ODE solvers and other tasks common in science and engineering.
PyXLL and SciPy can be categorized as "Data Science" tools.
SciPy is an open source tool with 6.13K GitHub stars and 2.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SciPy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of PyXLL
- Fully replace VBA with Python5
- Excellent support2
- Very good performance1
Pros of SciPy
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Cons of PyXLL
- Cannot be deloyed to mac users1