Using python as primary language

[Waldemar Osuch]

On Nov 8, 12:52 am, Michel Albert <exh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> In our company we are looking for one language to be used as default
> language. So far Python looks like a good choice (slacking behind
> Java). A few requirements that the language should be able cope with
> are:
>
> * Database access to Sybase.
>   This seems to be available for python, but the windows-binaries for
> the library
>   are not available. Self-Compiling them proved to be non-trivial (As
> always
>   on windows).

Consider using ODBC. "mxODBC" as well as "pyodbc" and "ceODBC" could
be
good alternatives.

> * Easy GUI creation.
>   Solved using PyQt.
> * Cross Platform (Linux + Windows).
>   Again, PyQt, solves this
> * Easy deployment.
>   Solved using py2exe + innosetup
> * Charting (Histograms, Line charts, bar charts, pie charts, ...)
>   I am currently looking into PyQwt, which looks promising.
> * Report generation with GUI support
>   reportlab + rml?
>
> So far, nearly all point seems to be manageable. But I was not yet
> able to find a solution for the report generation. What we would like
> to have is a sort of GUI interface to prepare the reports without
> having to "code" the positioning. I found reportlab, and it looks like
> it can do all that is needed in terms of output. But you still have to
> code the report. And this is a no go. In context, I found RML and saw
> links to graphical RML editors. But I have not yet found a concrete
> example code, or documentation. What am I missing? Is RML a reportlab
> creation or is it a recognised open standard? If not, is there an open
> standard, that is easily to process with python?

I still have to try it but pisa looks very promising:
http://pisa.spirito.de/content/501/pisa3.html
PDF generation using HTML+CSS for layout.
I hope your boss considers HTML acceptable "coding".

>
> Any pointers? I would prefer coding Python to coding Java or
> worse..... VB ;) which is another contender in our roundup.

You mean VB before .Net?  You know that Microsoft ended support for
it.
Thanks to that brilliant decision Python is an "official" language at
my place of work.