[reportlab-users] Tables and spanning

[Johan Paul Glutting]

I am having very serious trouble trying to get cells to span using the 
table code in reportlab. The main problem seems to be that the code 
cannot  span the cells that I am interested in. I am beginning to think 
the problem is that the cell spanning screws up the indexing of the 
table, so trying to span more than once in a given row creates 
confusion. It also seems to try to span three columns when I ask for two.

 From what I have gathered from some posts on this list is that this 
code is not really working properly. Has anyone used column spanning, 
and is there any limited functionality that works ?

Failing that, it there an easy way to get back the set of column widths 
calculated for a column before it is written to the PDF file? I could 
use this information to create a "header" table (I am trying to get 
headers that span columns...) to sit on top of the data table.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
JP