1. pytablewriter

1.1. Summary

pytablewriter is a Python library to write a table in various formats: AsciiDoc / CSV / Elasticsearch / HTML / JavaScript / JSON / LaTeX / LDJSON / LTSV / Markdown / MediaWiki / NumPy / Excel / Pandas / Python / reStructuredText / SQLite / TOML / TSV / YAML.

1.2. Features

• Write a table in various formats:

  • Text formats:

    • AsciiDoc

    • CSV / Tab-separated values (TSV) / Space-separated values (SSV)

    • HTML / CSS

    • JSON / Line-delimited JSON(LDJSON)

    • Labeled Tab-separated Values (LTSV)

    • LaTeX: tabular/array environment

    • Markdown: CommonMark / GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) / kramdown

    • MediaWiki

    • reStructuredText: Grid Tables/Simple Tables/CSV Table

    • Source code (definition of a variable that represents tabular data)

      • JavaScript / NumPy (numpy.array) / Pandas (pandas.DataFrame) / Python

    • TOML

    • YAML

    • Unicode

  • Binary file formats:

    • Microsoft Excel ^TM (.xlsx/.xls file format)

    • pandas.DataFrame pickle file

    • SQLite database

  • Application-specific formats:

    • Elasticsearch

• Automatic table cell formatting:

  • Alignment

  • Padding

  • Decimal places of numbers

• Customize table cell styles:

  • Text/Background color

  • Text alignment

  • Font size/weight

  • Thousand separator for numbers: e.g. 1,000/1 000

• Configure output:

  • Write a table to a stream such as a file/standard-output/string-buffer/Jupyter-Notebook

  • Get rendered tabular text

• Data sources:

  • nested list

  • CSV

  • pandas.DataFrame / pandas.Series

  • etc.

• Multibyte character support

• ANSI color support

2. Installation

2.1. Installation: pip

pip install pytablewriter

Some of the formats require additional dependency packages, you can install these packages as follows:

Installation of optional dependencies

Installation example	Remark
pip install pytablewriter[es]	Elasticsearch
pip install pytablewriter[excel]	Excel
pip install pytablewriter[html]	HTML
pip install pytablewriter[sqlite]	SQLite database
pip install pytablewriter[toml]	TOML
pip install pytablewriter[theme]	pytablewriter theme plugins
pip install pytablewriter[all]	Install all of the optional dependencies

2.2. Installation: conda

conda install -c conda-forge pytablewriter

2.3. Installation: apt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thombashi/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pytablewriter

3. Dependencies

• Python 3.7+

• Python package dependencies (automatically installed)

3.1. Optional dependencies

• logging extras

  • loguru: Used for logging if the package installed

• from extras

  • pytablereader

• es extra

  • elasticsearch

• excel extras

  • xlwt

  • XlsxWriter

• html extras

  • dominate

• sqlite extras

  • SimpleSQLite

• theme extras

  • pytablewriter-altrow-theme

• toml extras

  • toml