Print a table in python
It is always a good idea to nicely format the output of your program to make it easier to understand and interpret. Following this principle, Python lists can be displayed in the form of a table.
There are some light and useful Python packages for tabulating output lists. A few of these packages are:
1. tabulate
The tabulate package is the most widely used Python package for tabulating lists; it has many options for specifying headers and table format.
from tabulate import tabulatel = [["Hassan", 21, "LUMS"], ["Ali", 22, "FAST"], ["Ahmed", 23, "UET"]]table = tabulate(l, headers=['Name', 'Age', 'University'], tablefmt='orgtbl')print(table)
2. PrettyTable
PrettyTable is a package that serves a similar purpose to the tabulate package. PrettyTable also has the option to read data from CSV, HTML, or a database.
from prettytable import PrettyTablel = [["Hassan", 21, "LUMS"], ["Ali", 22, "FAST"], ["Ahmed", 23, "UET"]]table = PrettyTable(['Name', 'Age', 'University'])for rec in l:table.add_row(rec)print(table)
3. texttable
texttable is another package that serves a similar purpose to the two packages discussed above. With texttable, you can control horizontal/vertical-align, border style, and data types.
from texttable import Texttable# texttable takes the first reocrd in the list as the column names# of the tablel = [["Name", "Age", "University"], ["Hassan", 21, "LUMS"], ["Ali", 22, "FAST"], ["Ahmed", 23, "UET"]]table = Texttable()table.add_rows(l)print(table.draw())
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