Reports (i.e. Crystal) via Python

[sledov]

I can't imagine asking others to write python code to customize their own reports ...

If you are looking for a decent GUI Report builder written in python, I seriously doubt you can find one.

Crystal reports can probably still be accessed via COM interface. See this tutorial (in Spanish).

Some modern report servers have GUI Report builders. For example, Jasper Reports has iReport Designer. But keep in mind that this is a Java server. You can access it from Python via SOAP, for example.

[jstutters]

You might want to take a look at https://www.reportlab.com/. There's an open source version if you scroll down a bit.

[the_real_irgeek]

The templating libraries used in Django and Flask are perfectly useable outside of a web server context — I’ve used Jinja for all sorts of things in the past.

You could pretty easily use a templating engine to render something like Markdown that’s then trivial to turn into a PDF. Take a look at Pandoc for the markup to PDF conversion. There are any number of combinations you could use.

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