Help with report

[ChrisH]

I should have been more specific. The report needs to be presentable to 
my users and needs to have rich text type properties (multiple colors, 
tables, etc) Therefore, I would like to use html if possible.

I didn't know if there was already a report writing type of utility 
already built using python, so I won't have to reinvent the wheel.

Oh. The one other thing I forgot to mention is that the data needs to be 
already updated every 10 minutes or so automatically.


In article <11d5scbb63afhee at corp.supernews.com>, grante at visi.com says...
> On 2005-07-11, ChrisH <secun at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have some data in the following format:
> >
> > Fred Flintstone,445553454,47634565
> > Wilma Flintstone,74857346,27576847
> > Barney Rubble,73487346,27576435
> >
> > I need to convert this data into a report with the user's name and 
> > difference between the 2 numbers.
> >
> > Can someone recommend a good way to do this?
> >
> > BTW, it would be best if I can have it up and running by tomorrow.
> 
> You really oughtn't put off homework assignments until the last
> minute.  Especially if you don't know how to do them.
> 
> > Also, html would be the preferred format, but not required.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
> 
> Hints:
> 
> The string object's "split" method: http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
>   
> for line in file('inputfile.txt','r')
> 
> the built-in int()
> 
> the string formatting operator "%": http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
>   
>