I have scripts which take tabular data (from Excel) as input and produce output data as tables again. I’m thinking of learning some Python webframework to realize this as a small web interface. However, I will need excel-like functionality like multiple tables in tabs, sorting by rows, filtering data (multiple columns), changing cells with selectable values and maybe highlighting cells.
Provided I do not need any other functionality, could you suggest the quickest way to realize this, i.e. the most basic webframework that maybe still provides a useful class for that kind of tables?
I can find resources myself, but it would help a lot if someone could name the features I have to look out for so that I can skip learning information that I won’t need for that particular task.
For this you will need more JS then Python.
You can use minimal python web framework – Flask.
And then employ full power of YUI3 Javascript framework that has excellent support for tables out of the box (including sorting).
Here are the docs for YUI3 datatable: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/datatable/
Regarding the multiple excel-like sheets – just create several tables and put them in tabs.