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Ultra-fast terminal table renderer written in C

Project description

⚡ speedtable

speedtable is an ultra-fast, C-based terminal table renderer for Python.
Designed for large datasets and low-latency rendering — with beautiful Rich-style Unicode output.

💡 Perfect for CLI tools, dataset previews, or any place you need fast + styled tables.


🚀 Features

  • Blazing-fast C implementation 🔥
  • Unicode box-style table formatting (like Rich’s HEAVY_HEAD)
  • Bold, colored headers with optional column type labels
  • Customizable:
    • Header color
    • Border color
    • Body text color
    • Type label color
    • Title text and color (italicized, centered above the table)

📦 Installation

pip install speedtable

🧪 Example Usage

import speedtable

table_data = {
    "columns": [
        {"name": "ID", "type": "int"},
        {"name": "Name", "type": "str"},
        {"name": "Age", "type": "int"}
    ],
    "rows": [
        {"ID": 1, "Name": "Luke", "Age": 21},
        {"ID": 2, "Name": "Joe", "Age": 45},
        {"ID": 3, "Name": "Alice", "Age": 56}
    ]
}

print(speedtable.render_table(
    table_data,
    header_color="green",
    border_color="magenta",
    body_color="white",
    type_color="red",
    title_text="Test Table",
    title_color="cyan"
))

🎨 Supported Color Names

Name Description
black Standard black
red Standard red
green Standard green
yellow Standard yellow
blue Standard blue
magenta Standard magenta
cyan Standard cyan
white Standard white
bright_black Gray (dim)
bold_red Bright bold red
bold_white Bold white (great for headers)

✨ Headers are always bold, and titles are always italicized.


💡 Why speedtable?

The Python rich library is beautiful, but may be too slow for rendering large tables in CLI environments.
speedtable gives you the same polished aesthetic — at native speed.


📄 License

MIT © Luke Canada

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