Reports, PDF, and grid widget for Python?

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Adams-Blake" == Adams-Blake Co <aremovethiscanton at adamsremovethis-blake.com> writes:

    Adams-Blake> Can you explain this a bit more? I read somewhere
    Adams-Blake> about Python Server Pages.  Is this what you mean? Do
    Adams-Blake> most (any?) web hosting firms support this?

The best known and most powerful web application server in python is
zope.  Since the Zope Corporation employs Guido (creator of python)
you can be assured of it's continued development and support for
sometime.

There are a number of commercial firms that do managed zope hosting,
and some that do free hosting for small bandwidth applications.

But you don't even need managed hosting if you don't want it.  The
zope install is super fast and painless, and on windows ships with
with its own python.  So if you want to develop a desktop app using
the web browser as the GUI interface, you could develop it as a zope
application, and install a zope instance on your customer's machine.
They could point their browser at http://localhost:8080 to run your
app.  

I have used zope a lot on linux.  When I wanted to see how hard it
would be to get up and running on a windows ME machine, I went to
zope.org, followed the download link, ran the GUI install wizard, and
double clicked start in the newly created zope folder.  The zope
server was up and serving all the machines on my LAN.  Total time from
when I started looking for the win32 binary on zope.org to the program
running and serving my LAN was about 3 minutes, and I had never done
it before and didn't read any install docs before hand.


JDH