Any status on xls2web2py?
-Thadeus
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM, mdipierro wrote:
> The problem with appadmin is that it is designed for the administrator
> and has security issues. A user can execute any python code he/she
> wants in the query string. This is a feature because its use is
The problem with appadmin is that it is designed for the administrator
and has security issues. A user can execute any python code he/she
wants in the query string. This is a feature because its use is
supposed to be restricted to the administrator. Users have to be
trusted to expose appadmin to th
I had actually used appadmin in production for a particular database
for several months. The users were the same as you are describing
(end-user, used to excel).
Now that it is time to give them the real app (as appadmin was just a
quick get us up and running)... they are actually sad to see us st
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, mdipierro wrote:
> I think what Vincent is asking is not so much importing capability but
> an interface that can read an excel file (or a csv file) asks you the
> names (guessing from the header) and types (guessing from data) of
> columns and then writes the mode
I've used this wrapper (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/483742-
easy-cross-platform-excel-parsing-with-xlrd/) for xlrd (http://
www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm) with good results. As long as the
worksheet has column headers as the first row you're good to go - it
will read in the data and pu
I think what Vincent is asking is not so much importing capability but
an interface that can read an excel file (or a csv file) asks you the
names (guessing from the header) and types (guessing from data) of
columns and then writes the model for you. Perhaps something that can
deal with the case wh
Well, my suggestion would be forget the XLS format for the first
iteration. Use CSV. If you're not concerned with formulas, that's the
cleanest route, and included in the default python install. (csv
module). I use it all the time for my load test frameworks I build.
It's not only very easy to use
This can be done. I need to check the licence of the xls readers.
On Mar 16, 3:45 am, Vincent Borghi wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have used web2py to (quickly) implement a simple phone directory of
> customer contacts,
> for a small phone call center.
> Before that, people tried to maintain their contact
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