On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:17:31 +0100, Les <nagy...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>Unfortunately, the reportlab-users mailing list is unavailable (I cannot >subscribe). There is paid support but since I already have a workaround, I >won't pay for this. I think this is a documentation error of the reportlab >package. (They do not mention that stories cannot be reused.) > https://github.com/eduardocereto/reportlab/blob/master/src/reportlab/platypus/doctemplate.py """ A document is built when a DocumentTemplate is fed a sequence of Flowables. The action of the build consumes the flowables in order and places them onto frames on pages as space allows. When a frame runs out of space the next frame of the page is used. If no frame remains a new page is created. A new page can also be created if a page break is forced. """ Well, the code does use the term "consumes" And down near the bottom (line 980 or so; this is a section that does multiple passes for special cases) """ # work with a copy of the story, since it is consumed tempStory = story[:] self.build(tempStory, **buildKwds) #self.notify('debug',None) """ -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
