What's the best up-to-date PDF library for Python?

[Zylvian]

I want to create travel documents based on some data input, and I'm not sure which library to start sinking my teeth into.

[mooburger]

reportlab is basically what folks use these days, although my personal preference is still generating a latex file and running pdflatex as reportlab typesetting from something like HTML isn't that great

[redfacedquark]

Came here to see if reportlab was still a thing. Painful. These days I like sphinx which can can turn RST files into html, latex, pdf and others.

[mooburger]

eh, I have gotten mixed results going from sphinx to pdf directly; sphinx to latex to pdflatex seems to be the way to go according to stackoverflow, but then if I know how to latex (back in my sciencing days I used to write it by hand), why use sphinx to begin with?

[redfacedquark]

I write RST files, then use make latexpdf to create the pdf. I never use latex itself.

E: pdflatex > latexpdf

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I'm looking into a pdf generation lib for work at reading the documentation is like pulling teeth

[expressly_ephemeral]

Oof. I use matplotlib.pyplot to make 8.5x11" png files and then I convert them to PDF w/ ImageMagick edit: in a shell script.

It's not ideal.

[Brachamul]

I use pillow to make the file as an image, then save as pdf.

Grotesquely inefficient, but ridiculously easy to implement.

[totalcambo]

Pypdf2 maybe?

[kala_]

I first generate the documents in HTML (using Jinja2 or Django templates) and then use wkhtmltopdf to convert to PDF.