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Mon 16 February 2015

Creating PDF Reports with Pandas, Jinja and WeasyPrint

Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles   

Pandas is excellent at manipulating large amounts of data and summarizing it in multiple text and visual representations. Without much effort, pandas supports output to CSV, Excel, HTML, json and more. Where things get more difficult is if you want to combine multiple pieces of data into one document. For example, if you want to put two DataFrames on one Excel sheet, you need to use the Excel libraries to manually construct your output. It is certainly possible but not simple. This article will describe one method to combine multiple pieces of information into an HTML template and convert it to a standalone PDF document using Jinja templates and WeasyPrint.

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