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		xlSlim makes it simple to use Python code from Excel, usually with no code changes or additional packages required.

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Welcome to xlSlim's documentation
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xlSlim - call Python code from Excel with **no code changes!**

* A unique interactive mode that mimics Jupyter notebook behaviour
* Data types converted automatically
* Python objects cached automatically
* Lists supported
* Keyword arguments supported
* VBA functions and other Excel add-in functions are available in Python
* Data can be easily streamed from Python to Excel
* Python can be used as a VBA replacement

...you don't even need Python installed. xlSlim has a bundled version of Python 3.10

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.. toctree::
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   :caption: User Guide

   user/installation
   user/quickstart
   user/interactive
   user/keyword_args
   user/passing_simple_types
   user/passing_arrays
   user/passing_objects
   user/passing_dicts
   user/udfs
   user/numpy
   user/series
   user/dataframes
   user/subprocess   
   user/imports
   user/dynamic_imports
   user/http_imports
   user/streaming
   user/vba_replacement
   user/vba_events
   user/menus
   user/licensing      
   user/troubleshooting
   

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.. toctree::
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   :caption: Examples

   samples/read_json_from_web
   samples/read_csv
   samples/sqlite
   samples/yfinance
   samples/pca
   samples/monte_carlo
   samples/nlp
   samples/stream_kafka_doubles
   samples/pivot_table
   samples/equity_index_options
   
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.. toctree::
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   :caption: Reference

   reference/environments
   reference/api
   reference/data_conversions
   reference/globals   
   reference/ranges
   reference/licensing   
   reference/software_requirements