[YLUG] Spreadsheets in Python?

[Stephen]

On 23 Jul 06, Simon Ward (simon at principia.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> a) reading in this data and displaying it in an Excel-like way (ie.
>    three columns) - each value would be in its own 'cell'
> b) allow the user move between cells, by tabbing or otherwise, to modify
>    values. Modification here means either 'adding extra lines of data',
>    'deleting spurious lines of data' or 'modifying single values'
> c) once the mods are finished, the user should be able to save the data
>    to a file.

My thoughts are inclining towards an html table for the frontend, populated by
javascript (AJAX) requests from a python xmlrpc server that has access to the
data. Using an actual database would probably mean your application could change
the data more easily without having to worry about locking.

... now why does searching for AJAX only find things that work on specific
servers, must be the buzzword compliance :)

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