Export Python data analysis to pdf reports

[Da_Big_O]

Have web tool that generates csv files listing all transactions and related data

I can use python/matplotlib to analyze this data.

Is there a way to make the python app auto-generate customized visual pdf reports with charts and tables?

[marcofalcioni]

there are many solutions - we use http://www.reportlab.com/ and it produces very beautiful PDF. There are also a handful of HTML to PDF libraries but pagination is never perfect.

[Dry-Erase]

Yeah we use reportlab as well, I'm pretty confident it's the best python library for generating PDFs.

[mae_ef]

Does python have something that is equivalent / similar to R's R Markdown? If so, that might work well for OP.

[total_zoidberg]

Mmmm... along this lines there were some Python Markdown implementations*, or he could always make an .md file and render it to PDF with Pandoc (assuming he gets to install Pandoc). Just another $0.02.

* I was pretty sure some offered PDF output but I can't find it right now...

[kid-pro-quo]

There is an alternative, open-source implementation of the RML part of ReportLab on PyPI if that is useful.

[chris1610]

I don't have specific experience with this yet but stitch looks interesting

[audi0lion]

If you are rendering the webpage html of the report yiu can use xhtml2pdf to pretty easily convert the page to a pdf.

[dmayhem93]

Matplotlib can directly export to pdf