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From: Wayne on 1 Apr 2010 06:34 My town office uses Microsoft operating system. They have a proprietary accounting system that uses excel for their accounting reports. I would like to read these report and reproduce the report so that the report can be seen on the web. I was thinking about using xlrd and xlwt along with some sort of software for building the web pages. I use linux only and do not use Microsoft. Q. Does python have to be installed on there computer to run the script? Q. Am I approaching this the wrong way? If so, what would be a better approach?
From: MRAB on 1 Apr 2010 08:58 Wayne wrote: > My town office uses Microsoft operating system. They have a proprietary > accounting system that uses excel for their accounting reports. > I would like to read these report and reproduce the report so that > the report can be seen on the web. I was thinking about using xlrd and > xlwt along with some sort of software for building the web pages. I > use linux only and do not use Microsoft. > Q. Does python have to be installed on there computer to run the script? > If you can copy the spreadsheet files to your machine then you can run the script on your machine. > Q. Am I approaching this the wrong way? If so, what would be a better > approach? >
From: KB on 1 Apr 2010 11:23 On Apr 1, 3:34 am, Wayne <infotech...(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: > My town office uses Microsoft operating system. They have a proprietary > accounting system that uses excel for their accounting reports. > I would like to read these report and reproduce the report so that > the report can be seen on the web. I was thinking about using xlrd and > xlwt along with some sort of software for building the web pages. I > use linux only and do not use Microsoft. > Q. Does python have to be installed on there computer to run the script? > > Q. Am I approaching this the wrong way? If so, what would be a better > approach? Wayne, check out google group python-excel. They are very helpful there, and I believe there are threads on how to compile what you are looking for into a .exe for just such a situation (Disclaimer: I am far from an expert, so I may have misunderstood from the python-excel thread if python is/isn't required on the target machine once the .exe is built, but try that group - John Machin is very responsive)
From: Tim Roberts on 2 Apr 2010 02:29
Wayne <infotechsys(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: > >My town office uses Microsoft operating system. They have a proprietary >accounting system that uses excel for their accounting reports. >I would like to read these report and reproduce the report so that >the report can be seen on the web. If it were me, I'd just have Excel print to a PDF. No conversion, no scripting. There are a number of open source PDF converters. -- Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. |