Peter wrote: > This post seeks advice on whether python would be appropriate for a task, or > whether you can suggest another approach. > > The project is to transcribe historical records such as schools admissions, > ship passenger lists, birth/death/marriages, etc for genealogy studies. > What we need is a simple software tool that will give the user a form set > out like the page being transcribed, do some simple validation and put the > data in a file (can be fixed field length plain text). Data files from > volunteers will be compiled into a master database. > > This software tool needs to work on a variety of different computers; Win95, > Win98, WinXP, Mac, Linux.
Take a look at Tkinter, it is pretty easy to get started with and good for making simple GUIs. Look at the csv module for writing the data to files. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
