Simple Workaround for Py2Exe and .EGG Files

May 7, 2006 on 11:28 pm | In Python | Comments Off

Py2Exe, along with Freeze are two popular packages for combining multiple files, dependencies, shared objects, and resources into a single relocatable package. Unfortunately, Py2Exe doesn’t handle .egg files very easily, which is what quite a few packages out there are distributed in. Using the Cygwin environment to easily create symbolic links, we’re able to simply include the necessary packages in the final distribution.
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Getting Started With ReportLab…

May 5, 2006 on 3:30 am | In Python | 10 Comments

The ReportLab software provides a very useful route to creating PDF documents and reports from within Python in a nice platform independent fashion. It provides a basic ‘canvas’ interface for rendering directly to the document, and a more useful basic layout system called PLATYPUS. I guess they’ve already got their eyes on an O’Reilly animal. In this article I will cover some of the basics of getting started, with a few samples.
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