tablestring 0.0.4

An ASCII text table renderer.

def table_string(table_columns: List[dict], table_dict: List[dict], header: bool=True, footer: bool=True) -> str:

    # analyse table_dict for lengths?
    table_width = 1
    return_string = ""
    for table_column in table_columns:
        table_width += table_column["width"] + 1

    if header:
        # return_string += f"{'=' * table_width}\n"
        for i, table_column in enumerate(table_columns):
            if i == 0:
                return_string += f"  {table_column['name']}{' ' * (table_column['width'] - len(table_column['name']) - 1)}"
        return_string += "|\n"
        for table_column in table_columns:
            return_string += f"┼{'-' * table_column['width']}"
        return_string += "|\n"
        for table_column in table_columns:
            return_string += f"|{' ' * table_column['width']}"
        return_string += "|\n"
        for table_column in table_columns:
            return_string += f"|{' ' * table_column['width']}"
        return_string += "|\n"
        for table_column in table_columns:
            return_string += f"|{' ' * table_column['width']}"
        return_string += "|\n"

    # return_string += f"{'=' * table_width}\n"




    for table_row in table_dict:
        for table_cell in table_row.items():
            pass

    return return_string


test_columns = [
    {
        "width": 40,
        "name": "Projects"
    },
    {
        "width": 20,
        "name": "Epochs"
    },
    {
        "width": 20,
        "name": "Collections"
    },
]

print(table_string(test_columns, test_columns))

"""

┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ item   ┃   qty ┃
┣━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━┫
┃ spam   ┃    42 ┃
┣━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━┫
┃ eggs   ┃   451 ┃
┣━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━┫
┃ bacon  ┃     0 ┃
┗━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┛

╔════════════════╗
║ item   ┃   qty ║
╠════════════════╣
║ spam   ┃    42 ║
║━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━║
║ eggs   ┃   451 ║
║━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━║
║ bacon  ┃     0 ║
╚════════════════╝

╔════════════════╗
║ item   ┃   qty ║
╠════════════════╣
║ spam   ┃    42 ║
╠════════════════╣
║ eggs   ┃   451 ║
╠════════════════╣
║ bacon  ┃     0 ║
╚════════════════╝

┏━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┓
┃ item   │   qty ┃
┠────────┼───────┨
┃ spam   │    42 ┃
┠────────┼───────┨
┃ eggs   │   451 ┃
┠────────┼───────┨
┃ bacon  │     0 ┃
┗━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ item   ┃   qty ┃
┣━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┫
┃ spam   │    42 ┃
┠────────┼───────┨
┃ eggs   │   451 ┃
┠────────┼───────┨
┃ bacon  │     0 ┃
┗━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┛


    ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╤═════╤═════╤═════╤═════╗
    ║ asdasdasd                        asdasdasd │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
    ╠════════════════════════════════════════════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╣
    ║ asd                                        │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
    ╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
    ║ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
    ╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
    ║ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
    ╚════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════╧═════╧═════╧═════╝


╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ PROJECT: Some Project                                              ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ And here is the project descript, whatever it might be. It might   ║
║ even be several lines.                                             ║
╠════════════════════════════════════════════╤═════╤═════╤═════╤═════╣
║ EPOCHS                                     │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
╠════════════════════════════════════════════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╣
║ asd                                        │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
║ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
║ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════╧═════╧═════╧═════╝


╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ PROJECT: Some Project                                              ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ And here is the project descript, whatever it might be. It might   ║
║ even be several lines.                                             ║
╠════════════════════════════════════════════╤═════╤═════╤═════╤═════╣
║                   EPOCHS                   │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
╠════════════════════════════════════════════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╣
║ asd                                        │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
║ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
║ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════╧═════╧═════╧═════╝




╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ PROJECT: Some Project                                              ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ And here is the project descript, whatever it might be.            ║
╠════════════════════════════════════════════╤═════╤═════╤═════╤═════╣
║ EPOCHS                                     │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
╠════════════════════════════════════════════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╣
║ Getting started                            │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
║ Moving forward                             │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────╢
║ Cleaning up                                │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════╧═════╧═════╧═════╝




















╔════════════════════════════════════════════╤═══════╤═══════╤═══════╤════════╗
║ asdasdasd                                  │ asd   │ asd   │ asd   │ asd    ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼────────╢
║ asd                                        │ asd   │ asd   │ asd   │ asd    ║
║ sdf                                        │ asd   │ asd   │ asd   │ asd    ║
║ sdf                                        │ asd   │ asd   │ asd   │ asd    ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══════╧═══════╧═══════╧════════╝


┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┐
│ asdasdasd                                  │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf │
├────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┤
│ asd                                        │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf │
│ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │
│ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┘




┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┐
│ asdasdasd                        asdasdasd │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf │
╞════════════════════════════════════════════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╡
│ asd                                        │ asd │ asd │ asd │ sdf │
│ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │
│ sdf                                        │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │ sdf │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┘




"""


"""
│ ┃ ║

─ ━ ═

┌ ┏ ╔ ┍ ┎ ╒ ╓ * 4

├ ┣ ╠ ┠ ┝ ╟ ╞

┤ ┫ ╣ ┨ ┥ ╢ ╡

┼ ╋ ╬ ╂ ┿ ╀ ╁ ╇ ╈ ╫ ╪ 
"""

x = [
    "thin",
    "thick",
    "thin"
    "┿"
]

"""
│ ║

─ ═

┌ ╔ ╒ ╓ * 4

├ ╠ ╟ ╞

┤ ╣ ╢ ╡

┼ ╬ ╫ ╪ 
"""

"""
only thin for inner column... yes!

│ ┃ ║

─ ━ ═

┌ ┏ ╔ ┍ ┎ ╒ ╓     * 4

├ ┣ ╠ ┠ ┝ ╟ ╞ ║ ┃

┤ ┫ ╣ ┨ ┥ ╢ ╡ ║

┼ ┿ ╪ 
"""

"""
only thin for inner column... 
same same outer border...
yes yes!!!

│ ┃ ║

─ ━ ═

┌ ┏ ╔     * 4

├ ┣ ╠ ┠ ┝ ╟ ╞ ║ ┃

┤ ┫ ╣ ┨ ┥ ╢ ╡ ║ ┃

┼ ┿ ╪ 
"""


"""
only thin for inner column... 
same same outer border...
yes yes!!!

(sorted by outer first)

│ ┃ ║

─ ━ ═

┌ ┏ ╔     * 4

├ ┝ ╞ ┠ ┠ ┃ ╟ ║ ╠

┤ ┥ ╡ ┨ ┫ ┃ ╢ ║ ╣

┼ ┿ ╪ 

manageable...
"""

left_side_matrix = {
    "thin": {
        "thin": "├",
        "thick": "┝",
        "double": "╞"
    },
    "thick": {
        "thin": "┠",
        "thick": "┣",
        "double": "┃"
    },
    "double": {
        "thin": "╟",
        "thick": "║",
        "double": "╠"
    }
}

right_side_matrix = {
    "thin": {
        "thin": "┤",
        "thick": "┥",
        "double": "╡"
    },
    "thick": {
        "thin": "┨",
        "thick": "┫",
        "double": "┃"
    },
    "double": {
        "thin": "╢",
        "thick": "║",
        "double": "╣"
    }
}

                # A - is this an outer_border
                    # 1 - determine border type
                    # 2 - populate edge characters (in array [a])
                    # 2 - populate line (in array [b]) with line type
                    # 3 - calculate intersections (in an array of arrays [c])
                    # 5 - populate intersection (in array [b])
                    # 6 - generate string
                # B - is this a line row (should really only be between frames, me thinks...) (maybe each table row is a frame?)
                    # 1 - determine line type
                    # 2 - populate edge characters (in array [a])
                    # 3 - populate line (in array [b]) with line type
                    # 4 - calculate intersections (in an array of arrays [c])
                    # 5 - populate intersection (in array [b])
                    # 6 - generate string
                # C - is this a text line
                    # 1 - populate edge characters (in array [a])
                    # 2 - generate string


                # how much of this should be done above? ie: should the print just have complete frames? just handling the edge character?
                # (more specifically, handling the line rows above?)

                row_index = 0