Getting started with the data grid

The Grid control provides a spreadsheet-like display of data using a separate data source that provides the data to the Grid control. The Grid control in wxPython is a generic widget used to display tabular data. In this recipe, we will explore some of the basic capabilities of the grid control by creating a grid that can be used to edit CSV-formatted files.

Getting ready

This recipe will assume some basic familiarity with the PyGridTableBase class that was discussed in the previous recipe, Implementing a data source; so, ensure that you take a quick review of the preceding recipe before getting into this one.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform in this recipe:

1. First, we will use a couple of extra imports from the standard library to help out in this recipe, so let's add them in, as follows:

   import csv
   from StringIO import StringIO
   import wx
   import wx.grid as gridlib

2. Next, let's start on the data source for the grid by defining the following...