Madhu Alagu wrote: > Hi > > > > I am looking template based report tools for python.It has the ability > to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, > HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Madhu Alagu
I don't know if there's a _single_ tool that can do all you want (there may be, just that I don't know of one), but there are many tools that can each do some part of it. Here are some, off the top of my head - Googling should get you more for each category. For templating - Cheetah, others. For PDF - ReportLab. PDFLib has Python bindings too, but its paid for commercial use, IIRC. For HTML - Python standard library itself has some stuff, there must be others. For XLS/CSV - CSV output is easy enough to "roll your own". Then import the CSV into Excel. If this isn't good enough (and it may not be, depending on your needs, as it requires manual (ok, it is possible to sort of automate that too using COM) import of the CSV into Excel. Google for a Python lib for direct XLS generation. For XML - like CSV, for simple XML, can be written by you (its just outputting XML tags, attributes and content from your code). There might be issues with encodings, etc. - in which case use a lib. Python has many XML libs - do some research. David Mertz and Uche Ogbuji, among others, have written a lot of articles on Python and XML, many of them are about reviewing and comparing various libs like ElementTree, Gnosis XML utilities and others. Many of those and other articles are on IBM developerWorks and XML.com. Vasudev Ram http://www.dancingbison.com http://jugad.livejournal.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list