Replacing excel: but with what ?

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Pekka Niiranen wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have a recommendation of what GUI to use in Windows to
> build
> an spreadsheet view of a dictionary. Application should support
> +, - , * and division -operations between cells, columns and rows.
> The size of the grid would be at maximum 2000 rows x 2000 cells.
> 
> I am plotting values to 2D -grid and giving string replacements for
> individual cells.
> One row consists of values in a file. Column -values are an union of
> all parameters found from all files. I would like to copy values
> from a selected cell to all rows. Grid should also support row
> and column-wise sorts.
> 
> I can allready create and start an Excel -sheet after parsing the file
> contents
> with re-execs. I am using WxPython for the toolbar, but sticking with
> Excel worries me. Plus I do not have a use for all of its features.
> 
> WxWindows has a grid, but does anybody have experience of its stability
> ?
> I have managed to crash its demo that comes with WxPython...

Does Tkinter meet your needs? You can create a spreadsheet by griddinng
Entry widgets. There is an example in Lutz's Programming Python 2'nd
Edition, if you happen to owe it.