Layout is a high-level Python package for laying out content, primarily for print. It is well documented, tested and commented and has been used in anger for several years.
- Documentation is found in the "docs" directory.
- See LICENSE.txt for the terms under which you may use this package.
Dependencies
The system requires ReportLab >= 2.0 to use the ReportLab specific functionality (although the library can be used without this, ReportLab is just the default renderer).
To compile the documentation, you'll need make on your system, and the Python Sphinx package (which in turn has a few dependencies).
To test the system, I recommend you use Nose.
A full set of dependencies, including optional dependencies are in the requirements.txt file. Please note that this was created by doing a pip freeze and then editing the == to >= for each requirement, which encodes the versions of libraries I happened to have, earlier versions of the same libraries may also work.
The docs and testing dependencies aren't included in the setup.py file.
Tests
You can run nosetests from the top level package directory to make sure everything is working.
It is useful normally to install dependencies into a virtualenv, so the workflow would be:
virtualenv ve
source ve/bin/activate
pip install -U -r requirements.txt
nosetests
Installing
Once you've tested the system, deactivate the virtualenv
deactivate
Then active the virtualenv of the project you're working on (or don't bother if you're installing globally), and do:
python setup.py install
Compiling Documentation
The documentation is built with Sphinx, and is created with a Makefile in the docs directory. For example
cd docs
make html
cd build/html
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
Will serve the documentation at http://localhost:8000
You can also build HTML-help and Latex versions of the documentation, though other software dependencies exist for them.
Requirements:
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