How to use Pisa on Google App Engine to generate PDF from HTML\CSS

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I'm developing a simple GAE application that crawl some data from a given site and present it formatted in html\css.
What i would like to do now is to offer the "Export to PDF feature" trasforming the formatted html\css to PDF.

I've imported Reportlab Toolkit and it works good but it's not what i need since it forces me to create PDF manually like:

pcanvas.drawString(10, 10, 'This is the title Blah blah blah')

What i really need is a library like PISA that trasform Html\Css to PDF.

Anyone has managed to succesfully intregrate and use PISA on Google App Engine?
Any hints?

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