[Tutor] Suggestions for output on multiple platforms
bob gailer
bgailer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 16:17:14 CEST 2010
On 6/29/2010 5:26 AM, Thomas C. Hicks wrote:
> I am a beginner at all this and never expected to reach a point where
> people other than myself may have to have access to the output of one
> of my programs. My problem is this - I have written a program that
> uses xlrd to read a series of xls files and collate and summarize the
> data. My original plan was to then write out that data into another
> xlwt spreadsheet that could be updated on a regular basis. I was
> thinking of adding a page per month as the data is updated regularly.
>
> The problem is that xlwt doesn't allow for very convenient addition of
> data to a spreadsheet - basically it has to re-create the whole
> spreadsheet each time.
>
> So now I am looking for suggestions of how I can output my data
> analysis. I am running Linux but the data needs to be able to be seen
> by users of OSX and Windows. I have been reading about GTK and figure
> I could output the analysis using that but am not sure it will be
> readable under Mac and Windows. Any ideas are welcome!
>
Write the data to an html file and view it in a browser.
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Bob Gailer
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Chapel Hill NC
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