toolstr

toolstr makes it easy to create precise str representations of many different datatypes

toolstr has functionality for:

• formatting: convert numbers, timestamps, and bytecounts to str
• charting: create data charts using Unicode and other character sets
• tables: create highly-configurable table representations

toolstr uses many Unicode characters, but can also fallback to ascii when needed.

Install

pip install toolstr

Contents

• Formatting Examples
• Charting Examples
• Tables Examples
• FAQ

Formatting

Charting

Tables

Each of the parameters shown below can be mixed and matched to achieve a particular style.

By default numbers in tables are converted to str using toolstr.format_number().

There are also some options visible in a terminal but not visible on github, including:

• color cells by column or by value
• separate color control of inner border vs outer border vs header border
• other rich styles including: bold, italic, and hyperlinks

Table Examples

toolstr.print_tables

{'add_row_index': True}

     │      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  
─────┼────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
  1  │  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
  2  │  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
  3  │    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  

{'border': 'thick'}

      Name  ┃                     Era  ┃            Age  
━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Vaalbara  ┃   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  ┃  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  ┃      Ediacaran-Jurassic  ┃    550,000,000  
    Pangea  ┃  Carboniferous-Jurassic  ┃    336,000,000  

{'border': 'double'}

      Name  ║                     Era  ║            Age  
════════════╬══════════════════════════╬═════════════════
  Vaalbara  ║   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  ║  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  ║      Ediacaran-Jurassic  ║    550,000,000  
    Pangea  ║  Carboniferous-Jurassic  ║    336,000,000  

{'border': 'ascii'}

      Name  |                     Era  |            Age  
------------+--------------------------+-----------------
  Vaalbara  |   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  |  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  |      Ediacaran-Jurassic  |    550,000,000  
    Pangea  |  Carboniferous-Jurassic  |    336,000,000  

{'outer_border': True}

┌────────────┬──────────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  │
├────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  │
│  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  │
│    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  │
└────────────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────────────┘

{'outer_border': 'thick'}

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  ┃
┃────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┃
┃  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  ┃
┃  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  ┃
┃    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

{'header_location': 'bottom'}

  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  

{'header_location': []}

  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  

{'header_location': ['top', 'bottom']}

      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  

{'separate_all_rows': True}

      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  

{'compact': True}

    Name                    Era           Age
─────────────────────────────────────────────
Vaalbara  Eoarchean-Mesoarchean 3,636,000,000
Gondwana     Ediacaran-Jurassic   550,000,000
  Pangea Carboniferous-Jurassic   336,000,000

{'header_border': 'thick'}

      Name  ┃                     Era  ┃            Age  
━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  

{'header_style': 'bold'}

      Name  │                     Era  │            Age  
────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────
  Vaalbara  │   Eoarchean-Mesoarchean  │  3,636,000,000  
  Gondwana  │      Ediacaran-Jurassic  │    550,000,000  
    Pangea  │  Carboniferous-Jurassic  │    336,000,000  

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