Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-05 Thread Ravi Teja
Omar wrote: > I'm looking for a programming language or module that sorta looks and > feels like MS Excel (I love and think in tables), yet has the power and > open-endedness of python or javascript. I'm still pretty new to > python. PyCells http://pycells.pdxcb.net/ http://pycells.pdxcb.net/wiki

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-05 Thread dug
I think that Gnumeric lets you do some python stuff. Douglas Omar wrote: > I'm looking for a programming language or module that sorta looks and > feels like MS Excel (I love and think in tables), yet has the power and > open-endedness of python or javascript. I'm still pretty new to > python.

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"James Stroud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerard Flanagan wrote: 8<-- > Thank you, this is very good stuff to think about. > > James I can't really add to the above train of thought... And I don't know if this will help - but if you want to think,

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-04 Thread James Stroud
Gerard Flanagan wrote: > What about symmetric 'load' and 'iterrows' methods for the Table class: > > t2 = Table() > t2.load( t1.iterrows("LastName", "Age") ) > > def load(self, iterable): > '''expecting tuples''' > for lname, age in iterable: > self.append( lname, age ) >

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-04 Thread Gerard Flanagan
James Stroud wrote: > Gerard Flanagan wrote: > >> py> # the following is probably the trickiest, should it return a Table > >> py> # should it be illegal? > >> py> # should t['Last'] be the way to take the "slice" and get the col? > >> py> t[None, 'Last'] # 1d slice returns list (2nd dim. expli

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-04 Thread James Stroud
Gerard Flanagan wrote: >> py> # the following is probably the trickiest, should it return a Table >> py> # should it be illegal? >> py> # should t['Last'] be the way to take the "slice" and get the col? >> py> t[None, 'Last'] # 1d slice returns list (2nd dim. explicit) >> ['Barker', 'Burnet', '

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-03 Thread Gerard Flanagan
James Stroud wrote: > I have spent a lot of time making a "Table" > class over about the last year and a half, but I'm not sure what might > be an intuitive interface for most people. First, I think it should work > like a "sorted" dictionary of lists, but, at the same time, a list of > sorted dic

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-03 Thread James Stroud
Omar wrote: > I'm looking for a programming language or module that sorta looks and > feels like MS Excel (I love and think in tables), yet has the power and > open-endedness of python or javascript. I'm still pretty new to > python. > > any ideas? i've been having some fun with VBA in excel, bu

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-03 Thread MC
Hi! You can expand VBA/Excel with Python, with Pywin32 for to make a dynamic COM server. -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-03 Thread Fuzzyman
Omar wrote: > I'm looking for a programming language or module that sorta looks and > feels like MS Excel (I love and think in tables), yet has the power and > open-endedness of python or javascript. I'm still pretty new to > python. > > any ideas? i've been having some fun with VBA in excel, bu

Programming Language that is Spreadsheet/Table Based

2006-11-03 Thread Omar
I'm looking for a programming language or module that sorta looks and feels like MS Excel (I love and think in tables), yet has the power and open-endedness of python or javascript. I'm still pretty new to python. any ideas? i've been having some fun with VBA in excel, but I want something I can