A library for converting a HTML tables into ASCII tables, rowspan and colspan allowed!
dashtable has functions for converting data to reStructuredText tables and Markdown tables, as well as methods for generating data from these text-tables. It can quickly convert html tables to rst, but you may have better results with pandoc.
:html2rst: Convert html table to RST grid table_
:html2md: Convert html table to Markdown table
:data2md: Convert a list of lists of strings to Markdown Table
:data2rst: Convert a list of lists of strings to RST grid Table_
:data2simplerst: Convert a list of lists of strings to a simple RST Table_
:grid2data: Convert an RST grid table_ to data
:simple2data: Convert a simple RST table_ to data
.. _RST grid table: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#tables .. _simple RST Table: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#tables
dashtable can be installed using pip::
sudo pip install dashtable
Depending on how you'd like to use dashtable, you may need to install some dependencies.
Several of the functions in dashtable have no outside requirements. However, for the following functions you will need to install certain dependencies:
:html2rst: BeautifulSoup_, :html2md: BeautifulSoup_ :html2data: BeautifulSoup_, :grid2data: docutils_ :simple2data: docutils_
.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ .. _pandoc: https://pandoc.org/ .. _BeautifulSoup: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Complete documentation on usage can be found on Read the Docs_.
.. _Read the Docs: http://dashtable.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Code.html
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A library for converting a HTML tables into ASCII tables, rowspan and colspan allowed!
We found that dashtable demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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