How to create PDF files with Python
In a previous article we talked about several ways to read PDF files with Python. This post will cover two packages used to create PDF files with Python, including pdfkit and ReportLab. Create PDF files with Python and pdfkit pdfkit was the first library I learned for creating PDF files. A nice feature of pdfkit is that you can use it to create PDF files from URLs. To get started, you'll need to install it along with a utility called wkhtmltopdf. Use pip to install pdfkit from PyPI: [code] pip install pdfkit [/code] Once you're set up, you can start using pdfkit. In the example below, we download Wikipedia's main page as a PDF file. To get pdfkit working, you'll need to either add wkhtmltopdf to your PATH, or configure…
