Hi all, To be frank i have a doubt whether it's a right thing to ask in this forum.
We had a requirement where we need to process some HTML files (which contains tabular data) and create some graphs and finally create a PPT which contains the graphs and a pdf which contains its tabular data. We that time used Perl to achieve this since we already had the expertize and there were some time constraints. We used GD graph module for creating graphs as .png files and used OpenOffice::OODoc module to create OpenOffice impress document with these *.png files. And we also had a xml configuration file to configure for each type of html files what kind of graphs are required. Now the problem is (Not sure it's a problem of Perl, it can also be due to some poor programming style) 1. Script has become huge (around 2500+ lines, though it has lot of newlines and comments) when we included many options, flexibilities and exceptions. 2. Still at some point of time we are getting stuck because of the limitations of the GD graph module or OpenOffice module. 3. Readability is also getting difficult day by day even though I'm the only who wrote all those things. I myself is struggling a bit to understand why i did that. So I would like to have some opinions/suggestions from you like 1. Would these kind of problems happen if i had used Python also 2. How good is the similar modules for creating OpenOffice documents, pdfs , graphs as png files in Python 3. Would it be a good idea to rewrite the entire thing in Python. 4. And some general programming thoughts/suggestsion/advice why this happened :( Thanks alot Jins Thomas _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
