Printing forms and labels in Python

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Monte Milanuk <memilanuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/10 11:30 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
>>
>> Use django or another web framework, and make your application a web
>> app.  With this approach you can display output to a web page, and
>> create a print stylesheet that can be finely tuned to print.
>>
>> This ups your work to get involved with a web framework, but it lets you
>> provide your application to users without the need to install.  It also
>> makes it totally platform agnostic
>
> Actually, this was kind of the way I originally started out (albeit looking
> at PHP & MySQL), for exactly those reasons, except one - the installation.
>  Everything else - the gui would be in a familiar browser frame of
> reference, and a lot of the get-this/send-that would be a bit simpler, plus
> it would be an extension of what I know (and am still learning) with
> html/css.
>
> The installation is the big snafu.  This isn't something I can install on a
> remote server and just have the users (tournament coordinators and their
> data entry helpers) connect to over the internet.  99% of the time, it will
> be one person on one computer at a location that is lucky if they have a
> 110VAC power outlet nearby.  Any kind of external network access short of a
> cell modem is pretty much out of the question. LAN/Wifi access between
> machines for some parallel data entry would be nice, but still asking a lot.
>  Expecting the end user (volunteers) to install/configure Apache server,
> MySQL server, Python, and Django starts to sound to be a little far-fetched.
>  I'd had some hope for cherrypy or web2py since they appear to provide a
> local http server without needing all the ancilliary stuff... somehow I
> didn't get the impression Django worked that way?
>

Django has its own http server, for debugging purposes. That should
work well enough for this.