On Nov 8, 1:52 am, Michel Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It looks like RML (Reportlab Markup Language) is a type of XML to me. It also appears to be a ReportLab invention. Lots of code examples can be found here: http://developer.reportlab.com/examples.html See also: http://www.reportlab.com/rml_index.html I'm not sure what you mean by "editing" a report. I have an application that allows users to enter data into a GUI and then it takes their data and inputs it into a ReportLab generated PDF. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
