CLI table draw in Python

Well.. I migrated all my current project to python 😅

Recipie is the same: fill all cells with spaces to maximum column length, then concatenate array representing table row using separator. Flavor with special chars like “├”.

Implemetation changed from Php CLI how to draw table , but not really much:

• Multibyte string length:

  mb_strlen( cellContent )
  

  become

  len(str( cellContent ))
  

• Column names:

  $key.str_repeat(" ",$columnWidths[$key] - mb_strlen($key))
  

  become

  key.ljust( maxLenghts[key] )
  

• Horizontal lines:

  str_repeat("─",$columnWidths[$key])
  

  become

  "".ljust( maxLenghts[key], "─")
  

• Data cell:

  $cell .= str_repeat(" ", $columnWidths[$key] - mb_strlen($cell))
  

  become

  str(cell).ljust( maxLenghts[key] )
  

  (some cells contain numbers, thats why str(..))
• Drawing table header:

  echo "╭─".implode("─┬─", $horizontalLines)."─╮\n";
  echo "│ ".implode(" │ ", $columnNames    )." │\n";
  echo "├─".implode("─┼─", $horizontalLines)."─┤\n";
  

  become

  print("╭─"+"─┬─".join(horizontalLines.values())+"─╮");
  print("│ "+" │ ".join(columnNames.values()    )+" │");
  print("├─"+"─┼─".join(horizontalLines.values())+"─┤");
  

  Pho associative key/value arrays are python dictionaries, and join will concatenate dictionary keys, not values in python. So we need .values() to turn it into array of values only.
• Drawing data row:

  echo "│ ".implode(" │ ", $row)." │\n"; 
  

  bacome

  print("│ "+" │ ".join(row.values())+" │")
  

• Drawing table footer

  echo "╰─".implode("─┴─", $horizontalLines)."─╯\n";
  

  become

  print("╰─"+"─┴─".join(horizontalLines.values())+"─╯")
  

That’s it 😊

Should I make nice function, like in previous post? 🤔 I doubt that it’s really nesessary, but if you want it - drop me a message with “buy me a coffee” widget in bottom-right corner 🤑