Re: [Tutor] Suggestions for output on multiple platforms
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Thomas C. Hicks 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 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Suggestions for output on multiple platforms
On 6/29/2010 5:26 AM, Thomas C. Hicks 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! Write the data to an html file and view it in a browser. -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Suggestions for output on multiple platforms
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Thomas C. Hicks 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! > Does it have to be a spreadsheet? Will csv files do as well? They are opened transparently in spreadsheet programs. And adding to csv files should be no difficulty as well. BTW, if you're thinking of adding a new sheet to an excel file every month, you should know that there's a limit to the number of sheets you can put in an excel workbook. -- regards, kushal ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Suggestions for output on multiple platforms
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
