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python-tabulate

Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate.

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Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate.

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2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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roelschroeven·Jul 29, 2024

There is a library: I use tabulate ([1]) semi-regularly for this purpose. There are probably more. I agree it would be very nice to have this in the standard library. [1] https://pypi.org/project/tabulate/, https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate

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westurner·Feb 1, 2024

pandas.DataFrame().to_latex() [1] and tabulate [2] support latex table output. [1] https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFram... [2] https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/blob/master/tabul...

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nyellin·Jan 15, 2022

Very nice. Two other great python libraries for cli display are: 1 tabulate: helps render ASCII tables in various formats (https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate) 2. typer: write cli commands by decorating python functions. It uses type annotations to automatically parse input (https://typer.tiangolo.com/) We're using both of those in our Kubernetes troubleshooting tool (https://robusta.dev). Going to look at adding Rich too

In Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal

kdeldycke·Oct 14, 2021

TIL about unicode rounded corners. Thanks @mixmastamyk, you just inspired me to add support for them into the python-tabulate project: https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/pull/151

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hprotagonist·Jan 13, 2020

The python ecosystem is really good here. I do a lot of exploratory coding in ipython, though the threshold for "switch to a real editor and run git init and poetry new" is pretty low. Want to munge CSV? stdlib, or pandas(https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/) Want to munge JSON? stdlib. Want to munge a database? pandas, stdlib, anything that speaks sqlalchemy Want to validate your json/sql/CSV/whatever and have it come in as a bunch of structured classes not std types? jsonschema https://pypi.org/project/jsonschema/, attrs+marshmallow, attrs+cattrs. http://www.attrs.org/en/stable/, https://desert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://github.com/Tinche/cattrs Want to transform csv into sqlite? https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite Want to serve sqlite as a REST api? https://datasette.r

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eadthedocs.io/en/stable/ Want to stuff simple things into a database really fast? https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Want to flip numerical data around? Numpy.https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/ Want to model it? Scipy https://www.scipy.org/docs.html, pandas Want to plot it? seaborn https://seaborn.pydata.org/, plotnine https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Want to futz around with structured data in a sensible way? glom https://glom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, python-lenses https://github.com/ingolemo/python-lenses. Want to spit out tabular data? Tabulate https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate Want to figure out where not to eat in chicago? built-ins: counter, defaultdict, comprehensions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyDLAutA88s There's a LOT you can do pretty fast, and I can more or less hammer out a basic ETL cli script in my sleep at this point.

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