tabular-print 1.0.7a1

Description:

tabularprint 1.0.7a1

Tabular Print
Tabular print prints a table that scales column widths to fit the data.
Written to mesh with the sqlite3 python module, specifically
cursor.description (list comp-ed to only have the column labels), and
cursor.fetchall(). Each row in the values list is treated as a row of
table data, and element order in the list corresponds to the order of
column labels. Use the ‘transpose’ argument if you data is formated with
each row representing a column of data.


Example
A redacted example from a side project of mine (https://github.com/mkitzan/terminus):
*--------------------------------------*---------------*----------------*-----*------*--------*
|Title |Author |Genre |Year |Pages |Type |
*--------------------------------------*---------------*----------------*-----*------*--------*
|Ellison Wonderland |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1962 |191 |stories |
|Dangerous Visions |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1967 |598 |stories |
|Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1968 |380 |stories |
|Again, Dangerous Visions vol.1 |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1972 |450 |stories |
|Again, Dangerous Visions vol.2 |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1972 |449 |stories |
|Approaching Oblivion |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1974 |164 |stories |
|Deathbird Stories |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1975 |347 |stories |
|Stalking the Nightmare |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1982 |301 |stories |
|Angry Candy |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1988 |324 |stories |
|Slippage |Harlan Ellison |science fiction |1997 |359 |stories |
*--------------------------------------*---------------*----------------*-----*------*--------*


Usage
First import the function ‘table’ from tabular print
from tabularprint import table
For a standard table use
table(col_labels, values)
For an augmented table use the expected arguments, and any combination
of the five non-standard arguments
table(col_labels, values, header="Look at this table", transpose=True, edge="#", padding=2, printer=lambda row: outfile.write(row + "\n"))


Non-Standard Arguments

header (default None): will print whatever this string is above the
table.
transpose (default False): will transpose the values argument if
transpose=True. Helpful if a row in values corresponds to a column in
the table rather than the expected values row corresponds to a table
row (format of a sqlite3 fetchall call)
edge (default “*”): when a horizontal line (“-”) intersects a
vertical line (”|”) in the table, an edge character is placed. By
default a star is used, but, by including an argument for edge when
table is called, you can augment what this character is.
padding (default 1): buffer determines the amount of whitespace
between the end of the longest value in a column and that column’s
right vertical divider. Example: |example of buffer=1 |
printer (default print): allows user to write the output of
tabular-print to a file, or call some function with each line of
tabular-print’s output as an argument. Each line of output is a
string, so be sure your function takes that into account.