[Python-ideas] Reporting tools for python

[Oleg Broytman]

Hi!

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 03:12:58PM -0500, tg <thomasgrzybowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the more general use of python for access to database
> information, numpy and scipy analysis, and web posting, it seems that
> there should be more and better means of reporting from python.

   Well, python is a programming language. It doesn't need any builtin
reporting. Even the standard library doesn't.
   (python-ideas is about ides for python and stdlib, not third-party
libraries or applications.)

> As far as I can tell, there are no tools that approach the
> high-level functionality
> of Proc Report, as used in SAS. Pagination with headers and footers,
> and column-spanning headers are some specific tool limitations.

   Like http://pythonreports.sourceforge.net/ ? It was written in our
company (not by me) and was in use for some time.

Oleg.
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