clc (command line charts)
Simple charts on the commandline (bar charts only for now). Read from stdin or from a file.
install
pip install clc. Done.
usage
Give clc data on stdin or a filename, and see a command line chart.
> cat ./fixtures/sample1.dat | clc
Paris ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 12
Tokyo ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3
London ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 14
Washington ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7
Adjust the width of the chart, and the symbol for the bars:
> clc ./fixtures/sample1.dat -w30 --tick='~'
Paris ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 12
Tokyo ~~~ 3
London ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 14
Washington ~~~~~~~ 7
Data should be formatted as in ./fixtures:
Paris 12
Tokyo 3
London 14
Washington 7
help
Via --help:
usage: clc [-h] [--verbose] [--width WIDTH] [--tick TICK] [infile]
clc: simple charts on the command line.
positional arguments: infile data file (or stdin)
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --verbose, -v --width WIDTH, -w WIDTH --tick TICK, -t TICK
future
- figure out a way to handle big numbers! as in, dissertation word counts :-P
- better handle non-integer values
- use csv.Sniffer()
- tests
- colors
- vertical bar charts