pytablewriter 0.1.0

pytablewriter is a python library to write a table in various formats: CSV/HTML/JavaScript/JSON/Markdown/Excel/Pandas/Python/reStructuredText

pytablewriter

Summary

pytablewriter is a python library to write a table in various formats: CSV/HTML/JavaScript/JSON/Markdown/Excel/Pandas/Python/reStructuredText

Features

• Write a table in various formats:

  • CSV

  • Microsoft Excel ^TM

  • HTML

  • JavaScript (Definition of a nested list variable)

  • JSON

  • Markdown

  • Pandas (Definition of a DataFrame variable)

  • Python code (Definition of a nested list variable)

  • reStructuredText

    • Grid table

    • Simple Table

    • CSV table

• Automatic value formatting

  • Alignment

  • Padding

  • Decimal places of numbers

• Output to a stream such as a file or the standard output

Examples

Write a Markdown table

import pytablewriter

writer = pytablewriter.MarkdownTableWriter()
writer.table_name = "zone"
writer.header_list = ["zone_id", "country_code", "zone_name"]
writer.value_matrix = [
    ["1", "AD", "Europe/Andorra"],
    ["2", "AE", "Asia/Dubai"],
    ["3", "AF", "Asia/Kabul"],
    ["4", "AG", "America/Antigua"],
    ["5", "AI", "America/Anguilla"],
]

writer.write_table()

# zone
zone_id|country_code|   zone_name
------:|------------|----------------
      1|AD          |Europe/Andorra
      2|AE          |Asia/Dubai
      3|AF          |Asia/Kabul
      4|AG          |America/Antigua
      5|AI          |America/Anguilla

Rendering result

Rendered markdown at GitHub

Write a JavaScript table (variable definition of nested list )

import pytablewriter

writer = pytablewriter.JavaScriptTableWriter()
writer.table_name = "zone"
writer.header_list = ["zone_id", "country_code", "zone_name"]
writer.value_matrix = [
    ["1", "AD", "Europe/Andorra"],
    ["2", "AE", "Asia/Dubai"],
    ["3", "AF", "Asia/Kabul"],
    ["4", "AG", "America/Antigua"],
    ["5", "AI", "America/Anguilla"],
]

writer.write_table()

var zone = [
    ["zone_id", "country_code", "zone_name"],
    [1, "AD", "Europe/Andorra"],
    [2, "AE", "Asia/Dubai"],
    [3, "AF", "Asia/Kabul"],
    [4, "AG", "America/Antigua"],
    [5, "AI", "America/Anguilla"]
];

Write an Excel table

import pytablewriter

writer = pytablewriter.ExcelTableWriter()
writer.open_workbook("sample_single.xlsx")

writer.make_worksheet("zone")
writer.header_list = ["zone_id", "country_code", "zone_name"]
writer.value_matrix = [
    ["1", "AD", "Europe/Andorra"],
    ["2", "AE", "Asia/Dubai"],
    ["3", "AF", "Asia/Kabul"],
    ["4", "AG", "America/Antigua"],
    ["5", "AI", "America/Anguilla"],
]
writer.write_table()

writer.close()

Output

Output excel file (sample_single.xlsx)

For more information

More examples are available at http://pytablewriter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pages/examples/index.html

Installation

pip install pytablewriter

Dependencies

Python 2.7+ or 3.3+

• DataPropery

• dominate

• pathvalidate

• six

• XlsxWriter

Test dependencies

• pytest

• pytest-runner

• SimpleSQLite

• tox

Documentation

http://pytablewriter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/