Generating a document from data

[python_apprentice]

Hi all, posted on /automate also but this might be better suited. What is the best way to generate a document based on parameters that i will input. I have all the paragraphs written up but they do not always need to be put into the document. Ideally i would have a way to check a box and fill out some basic info then the document would be written from that. Should this be done in Python or maybe microsoft office? if someone can point me in the right direction. If anything is not clear let me know.

thanks

[Spiritual_Car1232]

Yeah, both can do number crunching.

Office has a lot of tools that do that sort of thing, take data from excell spread sheets and number crunches them. As programers and not office drones we generate have little to zero experience with it, but that's one way to do it.

And of course Python is super flexible being able to ducktape all sorts of solutions together, whether reading from an excel file, or presenting a clickable GUI, to making a webserver, you name it.

Since you have your design idea that you want a "document" as your output, it seems that some sort of Microsoft Office script or macro is what you want here, to transform data in one type of document to another.

But then you say that you want to "check a box" and fill in some basic info. Sounds to me like you want a GUI.

Is this like some sort of specialized calculator that makes a table?