Replacing spreadsheets by Python and the browser

[rantingrick]

On Oct 2, 12:36 pm, markolopa <marko.lopa... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Examples of information I would store in such a tree/table system
> (which are now in spreasheets):
> - My dvd, avi collection: The tree would be the directory tree of the
> file system where I store my movies. For each directory containing the
> avis or the dvds there would be a table with one movie by row and
> several editable columns: the file name, the genre, the year, whether
> I have seen it or not, comments, etc.
> . The same thing for mp3.
> - My family budget. The tree would be the account tree, the rows in
> the table would be the deposits and withdrwals. This is actually my
> most important need. I don't find gnucash flexible enough for my
> needs.  Beancount (http://furius.ca/beancount/) has a great html
> output, but I would like to use the browser also for input.

Is there any reason why you could not use the advanced widgets in
WxPython? You never said whether this MUST BE a web application. If
GUI is okay then check out wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl. All you need to
do is write a little control code and voila.

http://www.wxpython.org/onlinedocs.php