How to create a bulleted list in ReportLab

Question

How can I create a bulleted list in ReportLab? The documentation is frustratingly vague. I am trying:

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Answer 1

The very recent versions of ReportLab have ListFlowable and ListItem objects (check Chapter 9 of the current user guide).

Answer 2

The bulletText argument is actually a constructor to the Paragraph object, not the <para> tag :-) Try this:

story.append(Paragraph(text, TEXT_STYLE, bulletText='-'))

Have a look at the examples on page 68 (page 74 now, in 2012) of the ReportLab Documentation, though. The convention in ReportLab seems to be to use the <bullet> tag, and the docs do warn that you can have only one per Paragraph instance. We render our bullets in ReportLab like so:

story.append(Paragraph('<bullet>The rain in spain</bullet>', TEXT_STYLE))