On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Thomas C. Hicks <para...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I am a beginner at all this and never expected to reach a point where > people other than myself may have to have access to the output of one > of my programs. My problem is this - I have written a program that > uses xlrd to read a series of xls files and collate and summarize the > data. My original plan was to then write out that data into another > xlwt spreadsheet that could be updated on a regular basis. I was > thinking of adding a page per month as the data is updated regularly. > > The problem is that xlwt doesn't allow for very convenient addition of > data to a spreadsheet - basically it has to re-create the whole > spreadsheet each time. > > So now I am looking for suggestions of how I can output my data > analysis. I am running Linux but the data needs to be able to be seen > by users of OSX and Windows. I have been reading about GTK and figure > I could output the analysis using that but am not sure it will be > readable under Mac and Windows. Any ideas are welcome! > > thomas > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > I would write my output using csv (comma separated value) format (for which there are python tools). Put these files on a webserver, and create a webpage that you update with links to the csv files. If you don't have security concerns (eg an internal webserver) you could just put them in a directory and not create index.html file so that the listing of csv files would show -- Joel Goldstick
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