Various functions

[igheorghita]

• tests added / passed
• passes tox

Added implementations for ADDRESS, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COLUMNS, ROWS, FILTER, and a few financial functions (IRR, PMT, PPMT). The financial functions are computed using the numpy-financial package and I didn't investigate how the IRR implementation in Excel might differ from it (Excel has a guess parameter, but numpy-financial doesn't use a guess). Perhaps there's a reason that pycel isn't already using this package - let me know if that's the case.

I think the implementations for COLUMNS and ROWS could be improved perhaps using the excel_helper decorator, but I wasn't sure how to properly apply that I think.

FILTER is also a bit of a strange case since it's only for Microsoft 365. I added a test xlsx file for this one.

Happy to change any of the implementations or tests.

Edit: Do you know why flake8 is failing on src/pycel/lib/lookup.py and tests/lib/test_financial.py? I looks like that error message is a bug and it might happen when there are linter errors in the file, but when I run flake8 locally, I don't see anything...

Edit part 2: Fixed the linter warnings being hidden by the flake8 bug.

[jiboncom]

Thank you for doing this! One question thou. I just started with pycel, but shouldn't you add the financial library to the default modules for this to work?

I tried installing from your branch with pip, and I couldn't get pycel you evaluate a cell containing the irr() command or even recognize the financial functions. So I compared the results of searching for "financial" against the results of "engineering" and your lib file is missing in one file. I manually modified that file and deleted the pycache folders and it worked.

excelformula.py #Line:525

    default_modules = (
        'pycel.excellib',
        'pycel.lib.date_time',
        'pycel.lib.engineering',
        'pycel.lib.information',
        'pycel.lib.logical',
        'pycel.lib.lookup',
        'pycel.lib.stats',
        'pycel.lib.text',
        'math'

Anyway, many thanks! I was stuck with this for some time.

[igheorghita]

Ah thanks for catching that. You're probably right! I can update the PR soon, but I'm not sure when (if ever) it'll get merged... haha

[dgorissen]

Hi Both. Thanks for putting this together. Sorry for the silence here, this is not a project I develop actively anymore. But if both of you confirm the changes work I can merge.