AW: [reportlab-users] table problem

[Joerg Maeckle]

mike,

you may check if you have enough space to maintain the table's content. 
if the content is too large in its dinmesions, the table will not be
rendered and no error message is raised..

joerg


> 
> 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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