Can we use emPy, ReST, and/or YAML for report generation

[Erik Max Francis]

Samir Patel wrote:

> Currently main choice to create a report in python is reportlab. It
> allows a fine control over creation of report at cost of bigger
> learning curve. Instead of reportlab, does it make sense to generate
> small reports using emPy or ReST with or without use of YAML? Are
> there any other choice to create small reports easily in python?

It's certainly quite feasible to use EmPy for this purpose -- Dinu
Gherman, for instance, used EmPy itself (along with ReportLab's
PythonPoint package) to build his EmPy presentation for EuroPython:

http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/presentations/empy-epc2003.pdf

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