Installing XLWings with Anaconda with Packages

Question

I have a fresh Anaconda installation (2019.07) for Windows with xlwings version 0.15.8. When I run from RunPython in VBA and try to import numpy I get the following error:

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

However when I go to my conda prompt and run python I can import numpy without issue.

The latest version seems to have added a Conda Base configuration variable but I haven't had luck getting it work. The only way I can get it to find pythonw is to use Interpreter variable instead of Conda Base , but that does not find the packages like numpy above.

How do I set the xlwings.conf properly to find my conda install C:\\anaconda3 , all of the conda packages (like numpy) and my src tree C:\\[blah]\\src in Windows?

Answer 1

As of Nov 19, 2020

Installing Python using Anaconda version 2020.11.

xlwings comes pre-installed with version 0.20.8 for Windows 32/64 bit and Mac osx-64

This might help anyone else struggling to get set up.