Can you use (or compile?) Python code in Excel

Hi,

Sorry I was unsure of where to try and post this in the regular forums so I thought I'd try in here. Basically I have found some Python code that I would like to see what numbers it comes up with (but where I don't do the Python thing - didn't have a clue where to start and wondered could you put in like a Macro?). I have found a workbook for doing tennis probabilities (http://strategicgames.com.au/index.php?p=1_14), but read about Courtsiding on the 538 blog a couple of weeks ago, http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...ennis-betting/ which led me here http://summerofjeff.wordpress.com/20...tennis-markov/ - and basically I am just keen to see what kind of numbers the model comes up with. I was just wondering was there any way of effectively compiling (I'm not even sure if that is the right term) Python code in Excel (as I can get the data to put in, I just couldn't figure out what to do with the code and just wanted to see how it compared to the other model).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Thanks. Are there/is there a preferred utility for porting Python code as I'm figuring someone has tried to do this, especially as there was a python tag.

Thanks again for replying. At least I know now that I can't go down this route to find what's at the end of the code.

Originally Posted by Andy Pope

You might be able to make use of excelpython.
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com...rix-functions/

Thanks, I will definately look into this as it looks like a possible way of doing it (but where I don't have a great background in this kind of thing, I think I will take my time and have a good read).

Thanks for the suggestion.