Python for win32 development, GUI, Database, dlls

[Andy Elvey]

One option you may want to check out is ReportLab (which is done in
Python ) - it is free -  http://www.reportlab.com
 Also , have a look at the data-plotting package DISLIN - free ,  works with
Python, very good graphics. http://www.dislin.de/
 Getting data from Access (using Python) - the O'Reilly book "Python
programming on Win32" has some very useful code in it - chapter 13
(Databases) would be helpful to you ..... :-)  .  This is a very good book
for anyone using Python on Win32.


Karel van der Walt <kvdwalt at csir.co.za> wrote in message
news:9fnrc8$lmp$1 at newnews.mikom.csir.co.za...
> I have been approached in a 'time to market situation'.
>
> Python appears to me to be a strategic choice, however:
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> this is a number crunching application most numeric stuff in existing
> (fortran) dll
> the new development will entail a lot of visualization, pseudo GIS like,
> animation (coloring of contours), plain media (digital picures, video) in
> a rich interactive GUI
>
> then all of this data in MS Access (what else?), with reports and graphs
on
> top of it. OK the latter can be in a reportwriter as long as one can call
an
> .exe with commandline parms from python) Integration with MS Office
formats
> (not ole automation) would be important (thus MS Access for imports
> exports).
>
> Any grave misgivings?
>
> Any pointers?
> Commercial libraries? However the exchange rate doesn't favour that :(
>
> tx k
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