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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
