Using python as primary language

[Michel Albert]

On Nov 8, 8:55 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 8, 1:52 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).
> > * 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?
>
> > Any pointers? I would prefer coding Python to coding Java or
> > worse..... VB ;) which is another contender in our roundup.
>
> It looks like RML (Reportlab Markup Language) is a type of XML to me.
> It also appears to be a ReportLab invention. Lots of code examples can
> be found here:
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> http://developer.reportlab.com/examples.html
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> See also:http://www.reportlab.com/rml_index.html
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "editing" a report. I have an
> application that allows users to enter data into a GUI and then it
> takes their data and inputs it into a ReportLab generated PDF.
>
> Mike

What I meant was that one should be able to "draw" a report template.
Basically a graphical user interface for RML in this case. I
personally would opt for writing RML or whatever code myself. But it's
impossible to convice my boss. The dialog usually goes like this:

"So, did you find a click-and-play editor for reports" - "Not yet, but
anyway, writing code is more flexible and easier to manage later on" -
"Hmmm... but it's code!" - "Sure, but you only write it once for one
report, you can easily re-use code-snippets, modifying the code does
not require one additional program, you just use your text-editor of
choice,..." - "Okay,.... but it's CODE!"....

and this goes on forever. My boss seems to be allergic to writing code
by hand. Which is very frustrating. I'm happy that Qt has the
"designer", although it's very easy to code the GUI's too ;)