Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Paul McNett wrote: > >> You should group and order inside the SQL statement, and then when you >> create your list of dicts, everything is already in the proper order and >> the Group Expressions in the report writer will work correctly. >> >> So, it sounds like you are doing it right. > > Thanks, Paul. I came to that conclusion when I tried various selects from > the sqlite command line shell. Putting them in order before feeding them to > the report writer even makes intuitive sense. :-)
I wanted to make the report writer as flexible as possible, which is why the report writer itself doesn't manipulate data. You just feed it two things: 1) the rfxml specifying the report layout. 2) a "cursor", which is a sequence of dicts. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
