Python module for making org charts?

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sun Oct 12 20:39:35 EDT 2003


Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman at rexx.com> writes:

> John J. Lee wrote:
> 
> > "Paul Gardella" <pgardell at bbn.com> writes:
> > 
> >> Does anyone know of a Python module for building organization
> >> charts?  I've looked at gdchart and JPGraph, but neither of them
[...]
> > Neither of these specifically know about org charts, but Graphviz
> > (use dot) and Reportlab are two options.  But it shouldn't be much
> > work in any decent vector graphics API, I'd imagine.  It's
> > possible that dia or sketch have code (maybe plugins) that
> > specifically does org charts, though.
> 
> That sounds like an answer to the output side, i.e. the need to
> print org charts.

No, it was primarily an answer to the "how to create" question.  The
data structure / objects part looks easy, glancing at a few examples
on the web.  Am I wrong?


> Related question -- Is there support for a digraph (directed graph)
> *editor* in Python?  I'd like to be able to edit state diagrams
[...]

A GUI editor, you mean?


John




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