dashtable 1.4.5

A library for converting a HTML tables into ASCII tables, rowspan and colspan allowed!

dashtable has functions for converting data to reStructuredText tables and Markdown tables, as well as methods for generating data from these text-tables. It can quickly convert html tables to rst, but you may have better results with pandoc.

Methods

html2rst:

Convert html table to RST grid table

html2md:

Convert html table to Markdown table

data2md:

Convert a list of lists of strings to Markdown Table

data2rst:

Convert a list of lists of strings to RST grid Table

data2simplerst:

Convert a list of lists of strings to a simple RST Table

grid2data:

Convert an RST grid table to data

simple2data:

Convert a simple RST table to data

Installation

dashtable can be installed using pip:

sudo pip install dashtable

Depending on how you’d like to use dashtable, you may need to install some dependencies.

Dependencies

Several of the functions in dashtable have no outside requirements. However, for the following functions you will need to install certain dependencies:

html2rst:

BeautifulSoup,

html2md:

BeautifulSoup

html2data:

BeautifulSoup,

grid2data:

docutils

simple2data:

docutils

Usage

Complete documentation on usage can be found on Read the Docs.