Python tabulate

Testing tables generated with the Python tabulate package.

Quarto example

Taken from the Quarto tables documentation, the table below uses the Python tabulate package with the IPython display module’s Markdown() function to print a markdown table.

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from IPython.display import Markdown
from tabulate import tabulate
table = [["Sun",696000,1989100000],
         ["Earth",6371,5973.6],
         ["Moon",1737,73.5],
         ["Mars",3390,641.85]]
Markdown(tabulate(
  table, 
  headers=["Planet","R (km)", "mass (x 10^29 kg)"]
))

Planets {#cell-simple-planets}
Planet	R (km)	mass (x 10^29 kg)
Sun	696000	1.9891e+09
Earth	6371	5973.6
Moon	1737	73.5
Mars	3390	641.85

Table formats

You can use other table formats from tabulate in combination with Markdown(), as long as they’re supported by Quarto’s rendering engine. For example, below is the output from tabulate() with used tablefmt="grid".

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table = [["spam",42],["eggs",451],["bacon",0]]
headers = ["item", "qty"]
print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="grid"))

+--------+-------+
| item   |   qty |
+========+=======+
| spam   |    42 |
+--------+-------+
| eggs   |   451 |
+--------+-------+
| bacon  |     0 |
+--------+-------+

When wrapped in Markdown() instead of print(), this renders as a nice HTML table, since Quarto supports grid tables.

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Markdown(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="grid"))

item	qty
spam	42
eggs	451
bacon	`0`