termtables

The tables have termed.

termtables is a lightweight Python 3 package for pretty-printing tables on the command line. Install with

pip install termtables

The code

import termtables as tt
import numpy

numpy.random.seed(0)
data = numpy.random.rand(5, 2)

tt.print(data)
# tt.to_string(data) returns the string

produces

You can control border style, padding, alignment, and various other attributes. For example,

import termtables as tt

header = ["a", "bb", "ccc"]
data = [
    [1, 2, 3], [613.23236243236, 613.23236243236, 613.23236243236]
]

tt.print(
    data,
    header=header,
    style=tt.styles.markdown,
    padding=(0, 1),
    alignment="lcr"
)

produces

| a               |       bb        |             ccc |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| 1               |        2        |               3 |
| 613.23236243236 | 613.23236243236 | 613.23236243236 |

which is useful for copy-pasting into websites that support Markdown (like GitHub).

See test/test_termtables.py for more examples.

If the styles in termtables.styles

thin
thin_thick
thin_double
rounded
rounded_thick
rounded_double
thick
thick_thin
double
double_thin
booktabs

ascii_thin
ascii_thin_double
ascii_double
ascii_double_thin
ascii_booktabs

markdown

aren't good enough for you, simply provide your own style as a string of length 11 or 15 (the extra 4 including header-separating characters). For example

import termtables as tt

header = ["a", "bb", "ccc"]
data = [
    [1, 2, 3], [613.23236243236, 613.23236243236, 613.23236243236]
]

tt.print(
    data,
    header=header,
    style="x0123456789abcd"
)

produces

1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2
0 a               0 bb              0 ccc             0
abbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbd
0 1               0 2               0 3               0
5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx9xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx9xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx6
0 613.23236243236 0 613.23236243236 0 613.23236243236 0
3xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx4

Testing

To run the termtables unit tests, check out this repository and type

tox

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License

This software is published under the GPL-3.0 license.