Python powered spreadsheets
Marmir takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets.
It is xlwt and google spreadsheets on steroids.
It also supports: input from Django models; taking Psycopg cursors; writing out ascii tables (like psql does); and will soon support HTML tables as output. The goal is to have one easy input with lowest possible configuration and support output of many useful table formats.
Installing:
$ pip install Marmir
Talk about simple to use, wow. Marmir is just this:
import datetime
import mm
now = datetime.datetime.now().replace(microsecond=0)
my_data = [
{
'msg': "My first Row",
'id': 1,
'when': now,
},
{
'msg': "My second Row",
'id': 2,
'when': now,
},
]
mm_doc = mm.Document(my_data)
mm_doc.write("example.xls")
Same example above as lists (also node the 'order' argument works in the above as well:
my_headers = ('id', 'msg', 'when')
my_data = (
(1, "My First Row", now),
(2, "My Second Row", now)
)
mm_doc = mm.Document(my_data, order=my_headers)
mm_doc.write("example.xls")
Or you can get fancier:
import datetime
import mm
my_data = [
{
'msg': "My first Row",
'id': 1,
'when': mm.Date(datetime.datetime.now(), "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"),
'homepage': mm.URL("https://github.com/brianray")
},
{
'msg': "My second Row",
'id': 2,
'when': datetime.datetime.now(),
'homepage': mm.URL("http://twitter.com/brianray", "Tweet Me")
},
]
mm_doc = mm.Document(my_data)
mm_doc.write("example.xls")
# also you can publish to google spreadsheats
mm_doc.write_gdata("Example Spreadsheet", "Username", "Pass")
Now for a little Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/) example:
from yourproject.models import TestModel
from mm.contrib.django.data_model import DjangoDataModel
from mm.contrib.django.grid import DjangoGrid
django_query_set = TestModel.objects.all()
mm_doc = mm.Document(django_query_set,
data_model_class=DjangoDataModel,
grid_class=DjangoGrid)
mm_doc.write("django_example.xls")
There is a lot more. Check out the Examples.
So the primary goals are:
Some other stuff:
Brian Ray @brianray wrote Marmir. Brian: is the organizer of ChiPy (http://chipy.org); one of the top 25 tech in Chicago (according to Crains Oct 2011); been professionaly developing software for business for 15 years ; and is sick of sub-par Python libraries for creating business spreadsheets.
The name Marmir name from parts of the names Maura and Miranda, the author's girls.
Copyright (c) 2013 Brian Ray