Reports, PDF, and grid widget for Python?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <87iszverj0.fsf at flibuste.net>,
William  <wilk-spamout at flibuste.net> wrote:
>"Adams-Blake Co." <aremovethiscanton at adamsremovethis-blake.com> writes:
>
>> I want to write a "business" application in Python and I need to create many 
>> complex text reports (subtotals, totals, grand totals, etc.). I'd also like 
>> to display data in a grid object (like Java's Jtable.) Finally, I want this 
>> to run on the Mac, Linux, and Windows.... with an install as easy as possible 
>> and able to be performed by a non-techie. Thus, I don't want to get 
>> "involved" with a 3rd party widget library (wxW.., Qt, etc.) that might make 
>> the install a nightmare for the user.
>
>if you don't want to use 3rd party widget library, you can do a web
>application, with the http module of python. 
>
>> 
>> Is there a native Python library to do grids? How do you folks "layout" 
>> complex reports and send them to PDF?
>
>pdf can be done with http://reportlab.com
>
>-- 
>William Dodé - http://flibuste.net

Python installs with Tkinter.  Tkinter provides grid.
Several people through the years have written table
widgets with PMW, and it's now easy to install Tk's
TkTable.  I summarize:  if you choose Tkinter, there
are quite a few ways you can approach report construc-
tion.

I'm certainly a ReportLab fan.

I get the feeling you're working too hard at this,
though.  How does a Web application not meet all
your needs?
-- 

Cameron Laird <Cameron at Lairds.com>
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