Tabulate

Tabulate is a handy Python package on PyPI you can install to make fancy terminal tables.

Install

With pipenv

pipenv install tabulate

With pip and virtualenv

virtualenv tabulate
pip install tabulate --user

Example

Take a list of lists, and use tabulate to create pretty terminal tables. I created a simple file called tabulate_example.py in a dedicated venv.

from tabulate import tabulate

example_list = [["Beverly Hills","California", "United States"],["Minneapolis", "Minnesota", "United States"],["Chicago","Illinois","United States"]]

print(tabulate(example_list, headers=["City","State","Country"], tablefmt="pretty"))

Windows

pipenv run python .\tabulate_example.py

Output

Use Case

I recently found myself having to interact with AWS APIs and was manipulating the data structures in response and wanted to display a fairly large amount of items in my terminal.