matthewdeanmartin / terminaltables

Generate simple tables in terminals from a nested list of strings.

terminaltables

What is it

Easily draw tables in terminal/console applications from a list of lists of strings. Supports multi-line rows.

• Python 2.6, 2.7, PyPy, PyPy3, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5+ supported on Linux and OS X.
• Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5+ supported on Windows (both 32 and 64 bit versions of Python).

📖 Full documentation: https://robpol86.github.io/terminaltables

Quickstart

Install:

pip install terminaltables

Usage:

from terminaltables import AsciiTable

table_data = [
    ['Heading1', 'Heading2'],
    ['row1 column1', 'row1 column2'],
    ['row2 column1', 'row2 column2'],
    ['row3 column1', 'row3 column2']
]
table = AsciiTable(table_data)
print
table.table

+--------------+--------------+
| Heading1     | Heading2     |
+--------------+--------------+
| row1 column1 | row1 column2 |
| row2 column1 | row2 column2 |
| row3 column1 | row3 column2 |
+--------------+--------------+

Example Implementations

Source code for examples:

• example1.py
• example2.py
• example3.py

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