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pyExcelerator
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Dedicated to Olya.
With you it can be reality.
0x0000. What's this?
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This is a library for generating Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 and
OpenOffice Calc compatible spreadsheets. pyExcelerator has
full-blown support for UNICODE in Excel and Calc spreadsheets, allows
using variety of formatting features, provides interface to printing
options of Excel and OpenOffice Calc. pyExcelerator contains also
Excel BIFF8 dumper and MS compound documents dumper. Main advantage is
possibility of generating Excel spreadsheets without MS Windows and/or
COM servers. The only requirement -- Python 2.4a3 or higher.
0x0001. Why?
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I had need to generate .xls with UNICODE under FreeBSD.
0x0002. Requirements.
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Python 2.4 up and running. I've tested pyExcelerator under
Win32 (Python compiled with MS C compiler and Intel
C compiler), Win64-x86 (MS C compiler), FreeBSD/i386 (GCC
3.4.2), FreeBSD/amd64 (GCC 3.4.2). Fastest was Python under
FreeBSD/amd64.
0x0003. Installation.
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As usually: python ./setup.py install
0x0004. Documentation.
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In progress. At the present time you can use examples and sources (I hope
I commented sources well and gave variables good names).
0x0005. Extra features.
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See ./tools/*.py. You'll find there BIFF8 dumper and MS Compound doc
dumper. In ./hrc you can take my python.hrc for Colorer plug-in for FAR
manager.
0x0006. Reporting bugs.
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Please!
0x0008. Future.
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Support for Esher layer and (maybe) charts.
0x0009. Useful links.
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http://www.python.org --
Python's home.
http://sf.net/pyXLWriter --
port of the first version Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.
This library can write only BIFF5/7 spreadsheets
and therefore can't use UNICODE in spreadsheets.
pyXLWriter however can write formulas with help
of PLY. IMHO, PLY and ambiguous grammar used by
author for formulas support are too power tools.
But in this case power was equals to simplicity.
I want overcome these restrictions and (strictly
IMHO) misfeatures.
http://www.openoffice.org --
OpenOffice home.
About 650 Mb sources -- the best teachers.
0x000A. Legality.
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With help from lawyers pyExcelerator is protect by Russian Federation's
laws and international treaties and can be used iff you agreed following
BSD-like agreement.
Copyright (C) 2005 Roman V. Kiseliov
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
software must display the following acknowledgment:
"This product includes software developed by
Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>."
4. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
acknowledgment:
"This product includes software developed by
Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>."
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Roman V. Kiseliov ``AS IS'' AND ANY
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Roman V. Kiseliov OR
ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
0xFFFF. Contacting author.
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Feel free to send me feedback and bug reports.
Roman V. Kiseliov
Russia
Kursk
Libknecht St., 4
+7(0712)56-09-83
<roman@kiseliov.ru>
subject *must* be
"pyExcelerator-bug" (without quotes)
or
"pyExcelerator-feedback" (without quotes)