pretty-tabulate

Pretty Tabulate

A lightweight Python library for formatting data as beautiful, colored tables in the terminal.

Features

• Simple API for creating formatted tables
• ANSI color support with automatic terminal detection
• Configurable column alignment, padding, and borders
• Works with lists of dicts, lists of lists, or pandas DataFrames

Installation

pip install pretty-tabulate

Quick Start

from pretty_tabulate import PrettyTable, Color

# Create a table from data
data = [
    {"name": "Alice", "score": 95, "grade": "A"},
    {"name": "Bob", "score": 87, "grade": "B+"},
    {"name": "Charlie", "score": 72, "grade": "C"},
]

table = PrettyTable(data)
print(table.render(color=Color.GREEN))

API Reference

PrettyTable(data, headers=None)

Create a table from data (list of dicts or list of lists).

table.render(color=None, border=True, padding=1)

Render the table as a formatted string.

format_table(data, headers=None, color=None)

One-liner convenience function.

colorize(text, color)

Apply ANSI color to text.

License

MIT