Marin Brkic wrote: <snip ... lots>
Actually, that might work. What I was needing (aiming for) was a way to write to excel 2003 files. Formatting is not necessary, since what I'm trying to write is some tabular data; results from fortran-python simulation (I can explain, but the details seem irrelevant for this case). I'm trying to avoid the text file - import to excel - mechanism, since there is quite a lot of files written.
Best regards Marin
Again, not python ( hope I don't start a flame war, I've just joined the list John Machin suggested--it looks very interesting). I have used Apache Cocoon for this kind of task. Everything important happens server-side. Your raw data could be stored in a database, or a flat file, or not stored persistently at all--just be created as a virtual stream if you can use your python/fortran utility as a web service. It goes into the cocoon pileline, and is first turned into XML. Then it is turned into other XML (in this case most likely the gnumeric format). Lastly it is serialized into Excel format, given the appropriate Mime type, and sent to your browser. It is only when it gets to the Browser, that a decision is made as to what to do with it. You can set up your Browser to open it is MS Excel (whichever one you have), Open Office, Gnumeric, or whatever. Most of them will cope with it perfectly, and will be able to save it locally in their most up-to-the-minute variation, if that is what you want. Cheers, Ken. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
