Re: Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-18 Thread vasudevram
vj wrote: > > Isn't generating CSV output suitable to your needs? > > Python's CSV module makes that very simple - unless you want to include > > images, etc. in the XLS file? > > You cannot create multiple worksheets using this method, or apply any > other form of formatting. > > VJ Ok, got it

Re: Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-16 Thread vj
> Isn't generating CSV output suitable to your needs? > Python's CSV module makes that very simple - unless you want to include > images, etc. in the XLS file? You cannot create multiple worksheets using this method, or apply any other form of formatting. VJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-16 Thread vj
> http://ooopy.sourceforge.net/ I downloaded the package. unfortunately there are no examples that come with. I found another python package which is more geared to creating simple calc objects from python at. Apparently it is a port of the perl library. http://sourceforge.net/project/showf

Re: Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-16 Thread vasudevram
vj wrote: > I just found something in perl: > > http://tools.openoffice.org/profiling/pod/LogFile/XML.html > > Will try and reverse engineer this, unless something like this exists > in python. > > VJ Isn't generating CSV output suitable to your needs? Python's CSV module makes that very simple -

Re: Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-16 Thread Fredrik Lundh
vj wrote: > I have a program which generates xml files for excel but these files > are not recognized by open office calc. I looked at the OO uno library, > but it seems like an over kill. this could be a start: http://ooopy.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-16 Thread vj
I just found something in perl: http://tools.openoffice.org/profiling/pod/LogFile/XML.html Will try and reverse engineer this, unless something like this exists in python. VJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Has anyone generated Open Office Calc XML files from python

2006-11-16 Thread vj
I have a program which generates xml files for excel but these files are not recognized by open office calc. I looked at the OO uno library, but it seems like an over kill. In my experience, for simpler documents, it is much faster to directly write to underlying XML format. Has anyone done this?