On Oct 2, 10:36 pm, markolopa <marko.lopa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Could you please recommend me a Python tool that could help me to get > rid of the messy information and scripts I have in spreadsheets? > > Spreadsheets are great for having simple things done quickly. But as > the needs grow their limitations can be quite frustrating. I would > like to use the browser to edit information that for the moment I > store in spreadsheets. > > I believe that the perfect tool for me would be that a combination a > table editing tool and a tree navigation tool. I would like to > navigate in a tree, expanding and collapsing nodes. The leaf nodes > would then be tables with some editable columns. > > A good table editing tool (without the tree navigation) would already > be very helpful. > > Examples of information I would store in such a tree/table system > (which are now in spreasheets): > - My dvd, avi collection: The tree would be the directory tree of the > file system where I store my movies. For each directory containing the > avis or the dvds there would be a table with one movie by row and > several editable columns: the file name, the genre, the year, whether > I have seen it or not, comments, etc. > . The same thing for mp3. > - My family budget. The tree would be the account tree, the rows in > the table would be the deposits and withdrwals. This is actually my > most important need. I don't find gnucash flexible enough for my > needs. Beancount (http://furius.ca/beancount/) has a great html > output, but I would like to use the browser also for input. > > I am very comfortable with Python, but I don't know much about web > framewords and javascript interfaces. I am ready to learn anything > that could help me to do the desired tasks quickly, without having to > code a web application from scratch. Is javascript the way to go? In > this case is there a Python lib can I use on the server side? Could a > tool like django be helpful? Pyjamas? Both a single machine or a > client-server architecture are fine for me. > > Thanks a lot in advance for all suggestion, > Marko
May not be what you are asking for but you may want to look at orgmode: http://orgmode.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
