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laila
laila

Reputation: 1059

creating nested tables in python tabulate

I want to create a LaTeX table as follows in python:

duck    small    dog    small
        medium          medium
        large           large

how would I do that?

The list I have looks like:

lis=['dog',['small','medium','large],'duck',['small','medium','large']]

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5954

Answers (2)

schuess
schuess

Reputation: 1059

You can simply combine the second column into one long string with newlines:

from tabulate import tabulate
table = []
table.append(["dog", "\n".join(["small", "medium", "large"])])
table.append(["fish", "\n".join(["wet", "dry", "happy", "sad"])])
table.append(["kangaroo", "\n".join(["depressed", "joyful"])])
print(tabulate(table, ["animal", "categories"], "grid"))

output:

+----------+--------------+
| animal   | categories   |
+==========+==============+
| dog      | small        |
|          | medium       |
|          | large        |
+----------+--------------+
| fish     | wet          |
|          | dry          |
|          | happy        |
|          | sad          |
+----------+--------------+
| kangaroo | depressed    |
|          | joyful       |
+----------+--------------+

Upvotes: 1

laila
laila

Reputation: 1059

I figured this out.

The idea is not to treat this as nested tables but as one table. In this case a table with 4 columns, so you reformat your list as:

lis=[('dog','small','duck','small'),('','medium','','medium'),('','large','','large)]

then use the tabulate package:

from tabulate import tabulate
print(tabulate(lis))

voila:

---  ------  ----  ------
dog  small   duck  small
     medium        medium
     large         large
---  ------  ----  ------

Upvotes: 1

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