[reportlab-users] table problem

[Mike Dewhirst]

OK - ignore this. I spotted a few stupidities and I'm working my way 
through them. Sorry to bother you.

M


> I'm new to Python and Reportlab.
> 
> I have written some python to output html to pdf and it sort of works a 
> little bit. I can produce paragraph headers and paragraph text ok but 
> have struck a black hole with tables.
> 
> My reading of the docs and samples indicates that all I need to do is 
> call platypus.tables.Table() with a list of equi-length lists containing 
> strings and it should work.
> 
> For me it just doesn't. Quietly. No errors. The paragraphs before and 
> after the tables come out OK. I can guarantee via unit tests that the 
> data (ie., Table(data) ) is a list of lists.
> 
> When I checked the source it seems to be looking for a Flowable rather 
> than a list of lists. This is what I saw in platypus.tables.py ...
> 
> class Table(Flowable):
>     def __init__(self, data, colWidths=None, rowHeights=None, 
> style=None, repeatRows=0, repeatCols=0, splitByRow=1, 
> emptyTableAction=None):
> 
> Where am I going astray? Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
> 
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