How can I make simple table in ReportLab? I need to make a simple 2x20 table and put in some data. Can someone point me to an example?
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Just an add on to radtek and Pol's answer:
You can substitute the response argument to SimpleDocTemplate() with a buffer object like io.BytesIO() like so:
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate
from reportlab.platypus.tables import Table
import io
cm = 2.54
buffer = io.BytesIO()
doc = SimpleDocTemplate(buffer, rightMargin=0, leftMargin=6.5 * cm, topMargin=0.3 * cm, bottomMargin=0)
... # To be continued below
This could be useful in cases when you want to convert the PDF object into bytes and then into byte-string to be sent in JSON format:
... # Continuation from above code
buffer.seek(0)
buffer_decoded = io.TextIOWrapper(buffer, encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore').read()
return JsonResponse({
"pdf_bytes": buffer_decoded,
})
Taken from the doc (https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf):
The required filename can be a string, the name of a file to receive the created PDF document; alternatively it can be an object which has a write method such as aBytesIO or file or socket
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