pytablewriter 0.2.1

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

pytablewriter
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Summary
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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 :superscript:`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 tables
- Simple tables
- 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
----------------------

.. code:: python

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()

.. code::

# 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. figure:: ss/markdown.png
:scale: 80%
:alt: markdown_ss

Rendered markdown at GitHub

Write a reStructuredText table (grid tables)
--------------------------------------------


.. code:: python

import pytablewriter

writer = pytablewriter.RstGridTableWriter()
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()


.. code::

.. 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. 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|
+-------+------------+----------------+

Write a JavaScript table (variable definition of nested list)
-------------------------------------------------------------

.. code:: python

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()

.. code:: js

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
--------------------

.. code:: python

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. figure:: ss/excel_single.png
:scale: 100%
:alt: excel_single

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 <https://github.com/thombashi/DataProperty>`__
- `dominate <http://github.com/Knio/dominate/>`__
- `pathvalidate <https://github.com/thombashi/pathvalidate>`__
- `six <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/>`__
- `XlsxWriter <http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/>`__


Test dependencies
-----------------

- `pytest <http://pytest.org/latest/>`__
- `pytest-runner <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-runner>`__
- `SimpleSQLite <https://github.com/thombashi/SimpleSQLite>`__
- `tox <https://testrun.org/tox/latest/>`__

Documentation
=============

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