pip install tabulate
>>> from tabulate import tabulate
>>> table = [["Sun",696000,1989100000],["Earth",6371,5973.6],
... ["Moon",1737,73.5],["Mars",3390,641.85]]
>>> print tabulate(table)
----- ------ -------------
Sun 696000 1.9891e+09
Earth 6371 5973.6
Moon 1737 73.5
Mars 3390 641.85
----- ------ -------------
The following tabular data types are supported:
* list of lists or another iterable of iterables
* list or another iterable of dicts (keys as columns)
* dict of iterables (keys as columns)
* two-dimensional NumPy array
* NumPy record arrays (names as columns)
* pandas.DataFrame
Examples in this file use Python2. Tabulate supports Python3 too.
Headers
~~~~~~~
The second optional argument named ``headers`` defines a list of
column headers to be used::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers=["Planet","R (km)", "mass (x 10^29 kg)"])
Planet R (km) mass (x 10^29 kg)
-------- -------- -------------------
Sun 696000 1.9891e+09
Earth 6371 5973.6
Moon 1737 73.5
Mars 3390 641.85
If ``headers="firstrow"``, then the first row of data is used::
>>> print tabulate([["Name","Age"],["Alice",24],["Bob",19]],
... headers="firstrow")
Name Age
------ -----
Alice 24
Bob 19
If ``headers="keys"``, then the keys of a dictionary/dataframe, or
column indices are used. It also works for NumPy record arrays and
lists of dictionaries or named tuples::
>>> print tabulate({"Name": ["Alice", "Bob"],
... "Age": [24, 19]}, headers="keys")
Age Name
----- ------
24 Alice
19 Bob
Row Indices
~~~~~~~~~~~
By default, only pandas.DataFrame tables have an additional column
called row index. To add a similar column to any other type of table,
pass ``showindex="always"`` or ``showindex=True`` argument to
``tabulate()``. To suppress row indices for all types of data, pass
``showindex="never"`` or ``showindex=False``. To add a custom row
index column, pass ``showindex=rowIDs``, where ``rowIDs`` is some
iterable::
>>> print(tabulate([["F",24],["M",19]], showindex="always"))
- - --
0 F 24
1 M 19
- - --
Table format
~~~~~~~~~~~~
There is more than one way to format a table in plain text.
The third optional argument named ``tablefmt`` defines
how the table is formatted.
Supported table formats are:
- "plain"
- "simple"
- "grid"
- "fancy_grid"
- "pipe"
- "orgtbl"
- "jira"
- "presto"
- "psql"
- "rst"
- "mediawiki"
- "moinmoin"
- "youtrack"
- "html"
- "latex"
- "latex_raw"
- "latex_booktabs"
- "textile"
``plain`` tables do not use any pseudo-graphics to draw lines::
>>> table = [["spam",42],["eggs",451],["bacon",0]]
>>> headers = ["item", "qty"]
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="plain")
item qty
spam 42
eggs 451
bacon 0
``simple`` is the default format (the default may change in future
versions). It corresponds to ``simple_tables`` in `Pandoc Markdown
extensions`::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="simple")
item qty
------ -----
spam 42
eggs 451
bacon 0
``grid`` is like tables formatted by Emacs' `table.el`
package. It corresponds to ``grid_tables`` in Pandoc Markdown
extensions::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="grid")
+--------+-------+
| item | qty |
+========+=======+
| spam | 42 |
+--------+-------+
| eggs | 451 |
+--------+-------+
| bacon | 0 |
+--------+-------+
``fancy_grid`` draws a grid using box-drawing characters::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="fancy_grid")
╒════════╤═══════╕
│ item │ qty │
╞════════╪═══════╡
│ spam │ 42 │
├────────┼───────┤
│ eggs │ 451 │
├────────┼───────┤
│ bacon │ 0 │
╘════════╧═══════╛
``presto`` is like tables formatted by Presto cli::
>>> print tabulate.tabulate()
item | qty
--------+-------
spam | 42
eggs | 451
bacon | 0
``psql`` is like tables formatted by Postgres' psql cli::
>>> print tabulate.tabulate()
+--------+-------+
| item | qty |
|--------+-------|
| spam | 42 |
| eggs | 451 |
| bacon | 0 |
+--------+-------+
``pipe`` follows the conventions of `PHP Markdown Extra` extension. It
corresponds to ``pipe_tables`` in Pandoc. This format uses colons to
indicate column alignment::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="pipe")
| item | qty |
|:-------|------:|
| spam | 42 |
| eggs | 451 |
| bacon | 0 |
``orgtbl`` follows the conventions of Emacs `org-mode`, and is editable
also in the minor `orgtbl-mode`. Hence its name::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="orgtbl")
| item | qty |
|--------+-------|
| spam | 42 |
| eggs | 451 |
| bacon | 0 |
``jira`` follows the conventions of Atlassian Jira markup language::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="jira")
|| item || qty ||
| spam | 42 |
| eggs | 451 |
| bacon | 0 |
``rst`` formats data like a simple table of the `reStructuredText` format::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="rst")
====== =====
item qty
====== =====
spam 42
eggs 451
bacon 0
====== =====
``mediawiki`` format produces a table markup used in `Wikipedia` and on
other MediaWiki-based sites::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="mediawiki")
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|+
|-
! item !! align="right"| qty
|-
| spam || align="right"| 42
|-
| eggs || align="right"| 451
|-
| bacon || align="right"| 0
|}
``moinmoin`` format produces a table markup used in `MoinMoin`
wikis::
>>> print tabulate(d,headers,tablefmt="moinmoin")
|| ''' item ''' || ''' quantity ''' ||
|| spam || 41.999 ||
|| eggs || 451 ||
|| bacon || ||
``youtrack`` format produces a table markup used in Youtrack
tickets::
>>> print tabulate(d,headers,tablefmt="youtrack")
|| item || quantity ||
| spam | 41.999 |
| eggs | 451 |
| bacon | |
``textile`` format produces a table markup used in `Textile` format::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt='textile')
|_. item |_. qty |
|<. spam |>. 42 |
|<. eggs |>. 451 |
|<. bacon |>. 0 |
``html`` produces standard HTML markup::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="html")
item | qty |
---|---|
spam | 42 |
eggs | 451 |
bacon | 0 |
``latex`` format creates a ``tabular`` environment for LaTeX markup,
replacing special characters like ```` or ``\`` to their LaTeX
correspondents::
>>> print tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="latex")
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\hline
item & qty \\
\hline
spam & 42 \\
eggs & 451 \\
bacon & 0 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
``latex_raw`` behaves like ``latex`` but does not escape LaTeX commands
and special characters.
``latex_booktabs`` creates a ``tabular`` environment for LaTeX markup
using spacing and style from the ``booktabs`` package.
.. _Pandoc Markdown extensions: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables
.. _PHP Markdown Extra: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#table
.. _table.el: http://table.sourceforge.net/
.. _org-mode: http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#tables
.. _Textile: http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/
.. _Wikipedia: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
.. _MoinMoin: https://moinmo.in/
Column alignment
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``tabulate`` is smart about column alignment. It detects columns which
contain only numbers, and aligns them by a decimal point (or flushes
them to the right if they appear to be integers). Text columns are
flushed to the left.
You can override the default alignment with ``numalign`` and
``stralign`` named arguments. Possible column alignments are:
``right``, ``center``, ``left``, ``decimal`` (only for numbers), and
``None`` (to disable alignment).
Aligning by a decimal point works best when you need to compare
numbers at a glance::
>>> print tabulate([[1.2345],[123.45],[12.345],[12345],[1234.5]])
----------
1.2345
123.45
12.345
12345
1234.5
----------
Compare this with a more common right alignment::
>>> print tabulate([[1.2345],[123.45],[12.345],[12345],[1234.5]], numalign="right")
------
1.2345
123.45
12.345
12345
1234.5
------
For ``tabulate``, anything which can be parsed as a number is a
number. Even numbers represented as strings are aligned properly. This
feature comes in handy when reading a mixed table of text and numbers
from a file:
::
>>> import csv ; from StringIO import StringIO
>>> table = list(csv.reader(StringIO("spam, 42\neggs, 451\n")))
>>> table
[['spam', ' 42'], ['eggs', ' 451']]
>>> print tabulate(table)
---- ----
spam 42
eggs 451
---- ----
Number formatting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``tabulate`` allows to define custom number formatting applied to all
columns of decimal numbers. Use ``floatfmt`` named argument::
>>> print tabulate([["pi",3.141593],["e",2.718282]], floatfmt=".4f")
-- ------
pi 3.1416
e 2.7183
-- ------
``floatfmt`` argument can be a list or a tuple of format strings,
one per column, in which case every column may have different number formatting::
>>> print tabulate([[0.12345, 0.12345, 0.12345]], floatfmt=(".1f", ".3f"))
--- ----- -------
0.1 0.123 0.12345
--- ----- -------
Text formatting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By default, ``tabulate`` removes leading and trailing whitespace from text
columns. To disable whitespace removal, set the global module-level flag
``PRESERVE_WHITESPACE``::
import tabulate
tabulate.PRESERVE_WHITESPACE = True
Wide (fullwidth CJK) symbols
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To properly align tables which contain wide characters (typically fullwidth
glyphs from Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages), the user should install
``wcwidth`` library. To install it together with ``tabulate``::
pip install tabulate[widechars]
Wide character support is enabled automatically if ``wcwidth`` library is
already installed. To disable wide characters support without uninstalling
``wcwidth``, set the global module-level flag ``WIDE_CHARS_MODE``::
import tabulate
tabulate.WIDE_CHARS_MODE = False
Multiline cells
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Most table formats support multiline cell text (text containing newline
characters). The newline characters are honored as line break characters.
Multiline cells are supported for data rows and for header rows.
Further automatic line breaks are not inserted. Of course, some output formats
such as latex or html handle automatic formatting of the cell content on their
own, but for those that don't, the newline characters in the input cell text
are the only means to break a line in cell text.
Note that some output formats (e.g. simple, or plain) do not represent row
delimiters, so that the representation of multiline cells in such formats
may be ambiguous to the reader.
The following examples of formatted output use the following table with
a multiline cell, and headers with a multiline cell::
>>> table = [["eggs",451],["more\nspam",42]]
>>> headers = ["item\nname", "qty"]
``plain`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="plain"))
item qty
name
eggs 451
more 42
spam
``simple`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="simple"))
item qty
name
------ -----
eggs 451
more 42
spam
``grid`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="grid"))
+--------+-------+
| item | qty |
| name | |
+========+=======+
| eggs | 451 |
+--------+-------+
| more | 42 |
| spam | |
+--------+-------+
``fancy_grid`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="fancy_grid"))
╒════════╤═══════╕
│ item │ qty │
│ name │ │
╞════════╪═══════╡
│ eggs │ 451 │
├────────┼───────┤
│ more │ 42 │
│ spam │ │
╘════════╧═══════╛
``pipe`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="pipe"))
| item | qty |
| name | |
|:-------|------:|
| eggs | 451 |
| more | 42 |
| spam | |
``orgtbl`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="orgtbl"))
| item | qty |
| name | |
|--------+-------|
| eggs | 451 |
| more | 42 |
| spam | |
``jira`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="jira"))
| item | qty |
| name | |
|:-------|------:|
| eggs | 451 |
| more | 42 |
| spam | |
``presto`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="presto"))
item | qty
name |
--------+-------
eggs | 451
more | 42
spam |
``psql`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="psql"))
+--------+-------+
| item | qty |
| name | |
|--------+-------|
| eggs | 451 |
| more | 42 |
| spam | |
+--------+-------+
``rst`` tables::
>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="rst"))
====== =====
item qty
name
====== =====
eggs 451
more 42
spam
====== =====
Multiline cells are not well supported for the other table formats.
Usage of the command line utility
---------------------------------
::
Usage: tabulate [options] [FILE ...]
FILE a filename of the file with tabular data;
if "-" or missing, read data from stdin.
Options:
-h, --help show this message
-1, --header use the first row of data as a table header
-o FILE, --output FILE print table to FILE (default: stdout)
-s REGEXP, --sep REGEXP use a custom column separator (default: whitespace)
-F FPFMT, --float FPFMT floating point number format (default: g)
-f FMT, --format FMT set output table format; supported formats:
plain, simple, grid, fancy_grid, pipe, orgtbl,
rst, mediawiki, html, latex, latex_raw,
latex_booktabs, tsv
(default: simple)