wxPython Not Ready for Commercial Use

[Paul McNett]

Andrew Durdin writes:

> I was recently involved in a project which required producing
> excel files programmatically (this was from VB *spew*). I
> started off using COM, but it turned out to be unreasonably
> slow for filling in all the cells that we needed to do; so
> instead we output an XML spreadsheet. It was much faster, and
> simpler in the end.

I used COM to do an Excel spreadsheet once. It was pretty 
complex and took an outrageous amount of processing time. And 
then the client updated Excel and had to call me in because 
something in the COM interface changed.

I wonder if your XML method has a better chance of surviving 
Excel "upgrades". I will certainly try to avoid COM in the 
future.

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Paul McNett
Independent Software Consultant
http://www.paulmcnett.com