Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: PollyReports
Version: 1.1
Summary: Report Generation Module
Home-page: http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/pollyreports.html
Author: Chris Gonnerman
Author-email: chris@gonnerman.org
License: UNKNOWN
Description: Report Generation Module
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        PollyReports.py provides a set of classes for database report writing.  It
        assumes that you are using Reportlab to do PDF generation, but can work with
        any "canvas-like" object as desired.
        
        PollyReports provides the following framework for report generation:
        
        A Report object has a data source bound to it at instantiation.  One or more
        Band objects (at least, a detail Band) must be added to it, and then the
        generate() method will be called to process the data source.  The data source
        must be an iterator that produces objects that can be accessed via []
        operations, meaning mainly dict, list, and tuple types, i.e. the most common
        types of records returned by standard database modules.  The detail band is
        generated() once for each row.
        
        Band objects contain a list of Elements (generally at least one) which define
        how data from the row should be printed.  An Element may print any normal data
        item or label and may be subclassed to handle other things like images.
        Generating a band in turn calls Element.generate() for each element, producing
        a list of Renderers with the first item in the list being the overall height of
        the band.  The height is used to decide if the band will fit on the current
        page; if not, a new page will be created first.  When the page is finally ready
        for the band, Renderer.render() will be called for each Renderer in the element
        list in order to actually render the data.
        
        This version is written for Python 2.7, but should be easily adapted to Python 3.
        
Keywords: database report
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Other Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: Printing
