Python offers the ability to easily turn certain tabular data types into nicely formatted plain-text tables, and that's with the tabulate function.
- install tabulate. ...
- import tabulate function. ...
- list of lists. ...
- We can turn it into into a much more readable plain-text table using the tabulate function: print(tabulate(table))
How does tabulate work in Python?
tabulate is smart about column alignment. It detects columns which contain only numbers, and aligns them by a decimal point (or flushes them to the right if they appear to be integers). Text columns are flushed to the left. You can override the default alignment with numalign and stralign named arguments.
What is tabular data in Python?
Tabular data can be easily represented in Python using the language's native objects – e.g. by lists of tuples representing the records of the data set. Tabular is a package of Python modules for working with tabular data. ...
