[beautifultable] Print List in Table Format

1. What is BeautifulTable?

This package provides BeautifulTable Class for easily printing tabular data in a visually appealing format to a terminal.

 

Features included but not limited to :

• Full customization of the look and the feel of the table
• Build the table as you wish, by adding rows, or by columns or even mixing both these approaches.
• Full support for colors using ANSI sequences or any library of your choice. It just works.
• Plenty of predefined styles for multiple use cases and option to create custome ones.
• Support for Unicode characters.
• Supports streaming table when data is slow to retrieve.

 

2. How to use

Step 1 : Import libraries and make objects

 

from beautifultable import BeautifulTable 

table = BeautifulTable(maxwidth = 130)

 

You can control maxwidth with 'maxwidth' parameter.

 

Step 2 : Add columns and rows

 

You can add rows by using append_row method until you want to end.

 

table.column_headers = laptops.header
# Find laptops under 500 euros
for laptop in laptops.find_laptop_within('Price_euros', 200): 
    table.append_row(laptop)
print(table)

 

Step 3 : Print the result