[Zope] RE: CSV (Was: Perl scripts)

[Charlie Reiman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Andreas Tille
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:30 PM
> To: Zope user list
> Subject: [Zope] RE: CSV (Was: Perl scripts)
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Charlie Reiman wrote:
>
> > Well, you can always launch the perl as an external process. But if it's
> > just generating CSV and acting as a CGI script, it should be easy to
> > replicate that behavior from a Python script object. If the
> script is small
> > post it or mail it to me. I'd be interested in seeing if it has
> some secret
> > CSV knowledge that makes the data format work better.
> >
> > FWIW, are you sure your Perl script behaves better than the
> Python script
> > you already have?
> In the thread of this mailing list named "Perl scripts" I explained, that
> I would like to use the Perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel which outputs
> real xls files.  I'm not really sure that it would work as plaed via
> calling Excel directly from the script, but after saving the obtained file
> the user would have a file which are perfectly viewable with Excel (and
> Gnumeric).
>
> I would love if someone would port this Perl module to Python, thought.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.

Woof. Wow. I had a look at this perl package and it is impressive. In
addition to the grunty icky work of supporting the OLE file format, it also
posseses a forumla parser, cell layout support, image placement (and
possible embedding, not sure), text formatting... It's quite impressive and
would take quite a bit of time and lots of testing to port in all its glory.

The good news is it doesn't appear to use any COM stuff or external C
packages so it should be pretty easy to port the core data file stuff. It's
also good code with clean layout and comments so it's easy to figure out
what is going on. Unfortunately, I don't have time and it isn't a priority
for my employer right now.