Intro to Html5TableGenerator

Html5TableGenerator will accept either a .csv/.tsv file or a nested list of values and will return a html table. It also features the ability to use classes found within the CSS/JS web framework: Bootstrap4

Usage

Html5TableGen may only take in one source argument; file or list

from tablegen import Html5TableGenerator

# generate a table from a local .csv file
table_csv = Html5TableGenerator(
                                file='path-to-file.csv',
                                file_type='csv',
                                footer=True,
                                bs=False,
                               )

# print html table to screen
print(table_csv.output())


# generate a table from a nested list

data_list = [
        ['DOB', 'Name', 'Location'],
        ['02/1989', 'Bill', 'Spain'],
        ['12/1984', 'Pat', 'India'],
       ]

table_data = Html5TableGenerator(
                                  data=data_list,
                                  bs=True,
                                  footer=False,
                                )
        
# print html table to screen
print(table_data.output())