Hi Pythonistas and Pythonistos, I am doing some fairly complex statistical analyses and trying to display the output in a form readable to technicians not yet enlightened by the wonders of python (ie they still use either Excel, S-PLUS/R, or Matlab only). I need to dump the results into text such that these users can do further processing, and I am looking for ideas on good ways to do this.
Note that formatting and displaying simple lists of named coeffecients or tables would easy; the problem is that these analyses (Lee-Carter mortality forecasts, for anyone who cares) require at least a single two-dimensional matrix of rates and ~12 scalar coefficients, and they generate 4 two-dimensional matrices, several three-dimensional matrices, and 20 or so scalar coefficients. Each of these pieces of data also has a canonical name with which they must be labeled in the output. All of these pieces of data go together. Finally, I would like to find some way to do this generally, so when my boss comes up with a new analysis I can re-use this text dump code. Has anybody done this? I am thinking of using cheetah, but I am still pondering design, hoping for list inspiration! pprint won't work because users will want to import into a spreadsheet, and it displays lots of "{" etc. Feel free to cc me on the reply, as I read the list as digest. TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list