To get fancier tables like
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| First Name | Last Name | Age | Position |
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| John | Smith | 24 | Software |
| | | | Engineer |
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| Mary | Brohowski | 23 | Sales |
| | | | Manager |
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| Aristidis | Papageorgopoulos | 28 | Senior |
| | | | Reseacher |
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you can use this Python recipe:
'''
From http://code.activestate.com/recipes/267662-table-indentation/
PSF License
'''
import cStringIO,operator
def indent(rows, hasHeader=False, headerChar='-', delim=' | ', justify='left',
separateRows=False, prefix='', postfix='', wrapfunc=lambda x:x):
"""Indents a table by column.
- rows: A sequence of sequences of items, one sequence per row.
- hasHeader: True if the first row consists of the columns' names.
- headerChar: Character to be used for the row separator line
(if hasHeader==True or separateRows==True).
- delim: The column delimiter.
- justify: Determines how are data justified in their column.
Valid values are 'left','right' and 'center'.
- separateRows: True if rows are to be separated by a line
of 'headerChar's.
- prefix: A string prepended to each printed row.
- postfix: A string appended to each printed row.
- wrapfunc: A function f(text) for wrapping text; each element in
the table is first wrapped by this function."""
# closure for breaking logical rows to physical, using wrapfunc
def rowWrapper(row):
newRows = [wrapfunc(item).split('\n') for item in row]
return [[substr or '' for substr in item] for item in map(None,*newRows)]
# break each logical row into one or more physical ones
logicalRows = [rowWrapper(row) for row in rows]
# columns of physical rows
columns = map(None,*reduce(operator.add,logicalRows))
# get the maximum of each column by the string length of its items
maxWidths = [max([len(str(item)) for item in column]) for column in columns]
rowSeparator = headerChar * (len(prefix) + len(postfix) + sum(maxWidths) + \
len(delim)*(len(maxWidths)-1))
# select the appropriate justify method
justify = {'center':str.center, 'right':str.rjust, 'left':str.ljust}[justify.lower()]
output=cStringIO.StringIO()
if separateRows: print >> output, rowSeparator
for physicalRows in logicalRows:
for row in physicalRows:
print >> output, \
prefix \
+ delim.join([justify(str(item),width) for (item,width) in zip(row,maxWidths)]) \
+ postfix
if separateRows or hasHeader: print >> output, rowSeparator; hasHeader=False
return output.getvalue()
# written by Mike Brown
# http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/148061
def wrap_onspace(text, width):
"""
A word-wrap function that preserves existing line breaks
and most spaces in the text. Expects that existing line
breaks are posix newlines (\n).
"""
return reduce(lambda line, word, width=width: '%s%s%s' %
(line,
' \n'[(len(line[line.rfind('\n')+1:])
+ len(word.split('\n',1)[0]
) >= width)],
word),
text.split(' ')
)
import re
def wrap_onspace_strict(text, width):
"""Similar to wrap_onspace, but enforces the width constraint:
words longer than width are split."""
wordRegex = re.compile(r'\S{'+str(width)+r',}')
return wrap_onspace(wordRegex.sub(lambda m: wrap_always(m.group(),width),text),width)
import math
def wrap_always(text, width):
"""A simple word-wrap function that wraps text on exactly width characters.
It doesn't split the text in words."""
return '\n'.join([ text[width*i:width*(i+1)] \
for i in xrange(int(math.ceil(1.*len(text)/width))) ])
if __name__ == '__main__':
labels = ('First Name', 'Last Name', 'Age', 'Position')
data = \
'''John,Smith,24,Software Engineer
Mary,Brohowski,23,Sales Manager
Aristidis,Papageorgopoulos,28,Senior Reseacher'''
rows = [row.strip().split(',') for row in data.splitlines()]
print 'Without wrapping function\n'
print indent([labels]+rows, hasHeader=True)
# test indent with different wrapping functions
width = 10
for wrapper in (wrap_always,wrap_onspace,wrap_onspace_strict):
print 'Wrapping function: %s(x,width=%d)\n' % (wrapper.__name__,width)
print indent([labels]+rows, hasHeader=True, separateRows=True,
prefix='| ', postfix=' |',
wrapfunc=lambda x: wrapper(x,width))
# output:
#
#Without wrapping function
#
#First Name | Last Name | Age | Position
#-------------------------------------------------------
#John | Smith | 24 | Software Engineer
#Mary | Brohowski | 23 | Sales Manager
#Aristidis | Papageorgopoulos | 28 | Senior Reseacher
#
#Wrapping function: wrap_always(x,width=10)
#
#----------------------------------------------
#| First Name | Last Name | Age | Position |
#----------------------------------------------
#| John | Smith | 24 | Software E |
#| | | | ngineer |
#----------------------------------------------
#| Mary | Brohowski | 23 | Sales Mana |
#| | | | ger |
#----------------------------------------------
#| Aristidis | Papageorgo | 28 | Senior Res |
#| | poulos | | eacher |
#----------------------------------------------
#
#Wrapping function: wrap_onspace(x,width=10)
#
#---------------------------------------------------
#| First Name | Last Name | Age | Position |
#---------------------------------------------------
#| John | Smith | 24 | Software |
#| | | | Engineer |
#---------------------------------------------------
#| Mary | Brohowski | 23 | Sales |
#| | | | Manager |
#---------------------------------------------------
#| Aristidis | Papageorgopoulos | 28 | Senior |
#| | | | Reseacher |
#---------------------------------------------------
#
#Wrapping function: wrap_onspace_strict(x,width=10)
#
#---------------------------------------------
#| First Name | Last Name | Age | Position |
#---------------------------------------------
#| John | Smith | 24 | Software |
#| | | | Engineer |
#---------------------------------------------
#| Mary | Brohowski | 23 | Sales |
#| | | | Manager |
#---------------------------------------------
#| Aristidis | Papageorgo | 28 | Senior |
#| | poulos | | Reseacher |
#---------------------------------------------
The Python recipe page contains a few improvements on it.
