pyexcel-text 0.2.3

A plugin to pyexcel and provides the capability to present and write data in 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())
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>

Dependencies

• tabulate

Change log

0.2.3 - 14.07.2016

Added:

1. json format: serialize date and datetime

Updated:

1. if a sheet has row_names, its json output become records(a list of dictionary) instead of a dictionary of row name vs the rest of row values.

0.2.2 - 01.06.2016

1. quick bug fix, see issue #27

0.2.1 - 01.06.2016

1. compactibility with pyexcel-io 0.2.0 and pyexcel 0.2.2

0.2.0 - 23.04.2016

It is a complete re-write of the whole extension.

Added

1. html support

2. support pyexcel 0.2.0’s generator output

3. pypy and pypy3 in test targets

4. support file stream and dot notation, e.g. pyexcel.Sheet.rst will return rst text representation of it.

Updated

1. #8, write_header as an option(False) to disable header writing

2. the json output of multiple sheet book will be sorted by its sheet names.

3. No longer, pyexcel-text is pyexcel-io plugin but pyexcel.sources plugin.

0.1.1 - 30.01.2016

Updated

1. #2, fix a typo in setup.py

0.1.0 - 17.01.2016

Updated

1. support pyexcel 0.2.0

0.0.3 - 12.06.2015

Updated

1. #1, align api interface

   with other pyexcel plugins, e.g. save_as, save_book_as

0.0.2 - 30.11.2014

Updated

1. support pyexcel 0.0.9

0.0.` - 20.11.2014

Initial release