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A simple text-only chart generator

Project description

textchart

Dead-simple tools for generating pure-text bargraphs and scatterplots

Usage

>>> from textchart import textchart
>>> data1 = {"bees": 5, "fish": 30, "highway": 6}
>>> textchart.print_graph(data1)
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│    bees: ■■■■■■ 5                                    │
│    fish: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 30 │
│ highway: ■■■■■■■■ 6                                  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>>> data2 = [(1,3), (4,6), (4,6), (10, 5)]
>>> textchart.print_graph(data2)
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   6.3┨                                             ┌───────────────┐ │
│      ┃              *                              │ "x": 1 point  │ │
│      ┃                                             │ "*": 2 points │ │
│      ┃                                             └───────────────┘ │
│   4.6┨                                    x                          │
│      ┃                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│   2.9┨   x                                                           │
│      ┃                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│   1.3┨                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│      ┃                                                               │
│   0.0╄━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯                     │
│      0.0    1.6      4.1      6.5      9.0     11.2                  │
│                                                                      │
│                                                                      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Utility Objects

FORMATTERS

  • FORMATTER.num: round to the nearest .1
  • FORMATTER.round: round to the nearest integer

SCALE FUNCTIONS

  • SCALE_FN.linear: linear scale axis
  • SCALE_FN.log: log scale axis

SORTING FUNCTIONS

  • SORTER.default: keeps order from iterating through label_value_pairs
  • SORTER.identity: default python sorting
  • SORTER.alphabetical: sort alphabetically
  • SORTER.lookup_list(l): creates a sort function that preserves the order in list l

API

Functions

add_border

(
string,
max_width=None,
fit=False,
box_chars='│┐└┘┌─',
bold=False
)

Parameters:

  • string: the string
  • max_width: if set, text will wrap if it exceeds a given width.
    • defaults to 80
  • fit: if True, the border will be fit tightly to the text. If False, the border will have width max_width.
    • defaults to False
  • box_chars: the text symbols for horizontal, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, top-left, and vertical border parts.
    • defaults to │┐└┘┌─
  • bold: if set, replaces the default box chars │┐└┘┌─, with bold glyfs ┃┓┗┛┏━
    • defaults to False

example:

>> add_border("this is a very long test string", max_width=10)

    ┌───────────┐
    │ this is a │
    │ very long │
    │ test      │
    │ string    │
    └───────────┘

bar_graph

(
label_value_pairs,
filler_char='■',
sorter=SORTERS.identity,
max_width=40,
horizontal=True,
size_labels=True,
border=False,
title=''
)

Parameters:

  • label_value_pairs: a list of pairs or a dict mapping labels to values
  • filler_char: the character to use as a filler
    • default ■
  • sorters: a function that sorts the labels along the axis.
    • default SORTERS.identity
  • horizontal: sets the orientation of the graph. Currently only horizontal bars are available
    • default True
  • size_labels: if true, includes the value as text at the top of each bar
    • default True

example:

    >> bar_graph({1:17, "2":3, "3 & OTHER": 1, 5: 16})

                1: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 17
                2: ■■■■ 3
                3: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 10
        3 & OTHER: ■ 1
                5: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 16

scatterplot

(
xy,
border=False
glyphs='.x*',
height=15,
show_key=True,
title=None,
unit_block=' ',
width=40,
x_formatter=FORMATTER.num,
x_label='',
x_range=None,
x_scale_fn=SCALE_FN.linear,
x_ticks=5,
y_formmatter=FORMATTER.num,
y_label='',
y_range=None,
y_scale_fn=SCALE_FN.linear,
y_ticks=5,
)

Parameters:

  • xy: a set of xy pairs
  • x_range: an optional pair setting the maximum and minimum values for the x axis
  • y_range: an optional pair setting the maximum and minimum values for the y axis
  • height: an optional value setting the height of the y axis
  • width: an optional value setting the width of the x axis
  • x_scale_fn: an optional scale function, which takes (min_, max_, steps, current_step) as inputs and returns the scalar value of the begginning of that step. SCALE_FN.log is available.
    • Defaults to SCALE_FN.linear
  • y_scale_fn: an optional scale function, which takes (min_, max_, steps, current_step) as inputs and returns the scalar value of the begginning of that step. SCALE_FN.log is available.
    • Defaults to SCALE_FN.linear
  • x_label: the label for the x axis
  • y_label: the label for the y axis
  • glyphs: a set of symbols to use to represent overlapping points.
    • defaults to ".x*"
    • NOTE: on some monitors, ・•● may improve clarity, but can also cause rendering errors due to variable width characters.
  • unit_block: sets the "background" for the chart. Used as the unit for combuting width.
  • x_ticks: the number of "ticks" along the x axis
  • y_ticks: the number of "ticks" along the y axis
  • show_key: self explanatory.

Example:

    >> # generating some random data
    >> data = [
      (random.normalvariate(50, 5)*random.randint(1,3), random.normalvariate(3, 1))
      for _ in range(400)
      ]
    >> # Plot command:
    >> scatterplot(
          data,
          title='test title',
          x_label='number of X values',
          y_label='number of\nunits of\nY value',
          border=True)

        ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
        │                                 test title                                          │
        │                                                                                     │
        │            6.7┨                                              ┌────────────────────┐ │
        │               ┃                                              │ ".": 1 - 3 points  │ │
        │               ┃         .       .                            │ "x": 4 - 6 points  │ │
        │               ┃          .        .      . .                 │ "*": 7 - 10 points │ │
        │            4.7┨         .x        . .       ... .            └────────────────────┘ │
        │               ┃        .x.. .    .x. .. ... .. ..                                   │
        │ number of     ┃        .xx.     ....xx... ..........                                │
        │ units of      ┃        .**.  . ....xx......x..x...                                  │
        │  Y value   2.8┨        .**x  .. x.**x......xxx..   .                                │
        │               ┃         **x    . ..*..   x.. x xx...                                │
        │               ┃        ...x     ..*...    ....... . .                               │
        │               ┃        ....     .  . . ..  ....... ..                               │
        │            0.8┨         .         .  .    .    .                                    │
        │               ┃        . .       .  .                                               │
        │               ┃         .        ..          .                                      │
        │               ┃                                                                     │
        │           -0.7╄━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯                           │
        │               0.0    30.0     75.1     120.1    165.1   205.2                       │
        │                                                                                     │
        │                      number of X values                                             │
        └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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