[reportlab-users] Use With SQLite3

[Ben Finney]

Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:


> What I read on the web site for ReportLab


Care to give a link to that information? It sounds a bit misleading.


> suggests that I need 'preppy' to incorporate table data from a dbms

> back end. Is that incorrect?


Reportlab is a PDF page layout library for Python; that is, you'll be
writing a Python program to use Reportlab to lay out a virtual page
and generate PDF output.

Python (version 2.5 and above) comes with standard library support for
SQLite 3, and external packages are available to use SQLite 3 with
older Python versions. I guess you know of this, since you say your
Python program already interfaces with SQLite 3.

Since you're already writing a Python program, you have all you need
to combine Reportlab with SQLite3. Getting the data from some source
and into the Reportlab interface is the task of your program.

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Ben Finney