pyexcel-text - Let you focus on data, instead of text formats

It is a plugin to pyexcel and extends its capbility to present and write data in text fromats mainly through tabulate:

• "plain"
• "simple"
• "grid"
• "pipe"
• "orgtbl"
• "rst"
• "mediawiki"
• "latex"
• "latex_booktabs"
• "json"
• "html"

Usage

Simple

>>> import pyexcel as pe
>>> content = [
...     ["Column 1", "Column 2", "Column 3"],
...     [1, 2, 3],
...     [4, 5, 6],
...     [7, 8, 9]
... ]
>>> sheet = pe.Sheet(content)
>>> print(sheet.simple)
pyexcel sheet:
--------  --------  --------
Column 1  Column 2  Column 3
1         2         3
4         5         6
7         8         9
--------  --------  --------
>>> sheet.name_columns_by_row(0)
>>> print(sheet.simple)
pyexcel sheet:
  Column 1    Column 2    Column 3
----------  ----------  ----------
         1           2           3
         4           5           6
         7           8           9

Grid

>>> print(sheet.grid)
pyexcel sheet:
+------------+------------+------------+
|   Column 1 |   Column 2 |   Column 3 |
+============+============+============+
|          1 |          2 |          3 |
+------------+------------+------------+
|          4 |          5 |          6 |
+------------+------------+------------+
|          7 |          8 |          9 |
+------------+------------+------------+

Mediawiki

>>> multiple_sheets = {
...      'Sheet 1':
...          [
...              [1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
...              [4.0, 5.0, 6.0],
...              [7.0, 8.0, 9.0]
...          ],
...      'Sheet 2':
...          [
...              ['X', 'Y', 'Z'],
...              [1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
...              [4.0, 5.0, 6.0]
...          ],
...      'Sheet 3':
...          [
...              ['O', 'P', 'Q'],
...              [3.0, 2.0, 1.0],
...              [4.0, 3.0, 2.0]
...          ]
...  }
>>> book = pe.Book(multiple_sheets)
>>> book.save_as("myfile.mediawiki")
>>> myfile = open("myfile.mediawiki")
>>> print(myfile.read())
Sheet 1:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|+ <!-- caption -->
|-
| align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 3
|-
| align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 6
|-
| align="right"| 7 || align="right"| 8 || align="right"| 9
|}
Sheet 2:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|+ <!-- caption -->
|-
| X   || Y   || Z
|-
| 1.0 || 2.0 || 3.0
|-
| 4.0 || 5.0 || 6.0
|}
Sheet 3:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|+ <!-- caption -->
|-
| O   || P   || Q
|-
| 3.0 || 2.0 || 1.0
|-
| 4.0 || 3.0 || 2.0
|}
>>> myfile.close()

Html

>>> book.save_as("myfile.html")
>>> myfile = open("myfile.html")
>>> print(myfile.read()) # doctest: +SKIP
Sheet 1:
<table>
<tr><td style="text-align: right;">1</td><td style="text-align: right;">2</td><td style="text-align: right;">3</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: right;">4</td><td style="text-align: right;">5</td><td style="text-align: right;">6</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: right;">7</td><td style="text-align: right;">8</td><td style="text-align: right;">9</td></tr>
</table>
Sheet 2:
<table>
<tr><td>X  </td><td>Y  </td><td>Z  </td></tr>
<tr><td>1.0</td><td>2.0</td><td>3.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>4.0</td><td>5.0</td><td>6.0</td></tr>
</table>
Sheet 3:
<table>
<tr><td>O  </td><td>P  </td><td>Q  </td></tr>
<tr><td>3.0</td><td>2.0</td><td>1.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>4.0</td><td>3.0</td><td>2.0</td></tr>
</table>

Please note tabulate 0.7.7 gives an extra tbody tag around tr tag.

.. testcode::
   :hide:

    >>> myfile.close()
    >>> import os
    >>> os.unlink("myfile.mediawiki")
    >>> os.unlink("myfile.html")

Dependencies

• tabulate