How to Repeat Table Column Headings over Page Breaks in PDF output from ReportLab

Question

I\'m using ReportLab to write tables in PDF documents and am very pleased with the results (despite not having a total grasp on flowables just yet).

However, I have not

Answer 1

Use the repeatRows=1 when you create the Table...

from reportlab.platypus import Table 
Table(data,repeatRows=1)

I always like to have something you can cut & paste into a .py file to run and test. So here it is...

import os
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import reportlab.platypus 
import reportlab.lib.styles
from reportlab.lib import colors
from reportlab.lib.units import mm
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter, landscape

reportoutputfilepath = os.path.join('.\\test.pdf')

pdf_file = reportlab.platypus.SimpleDocTemplate(
                            reportoutputfilepath,
                            pagesize=landscape(letter),
                            rightMargin=10,
                            leftMargin=10,
                            topMargin=38,
                            bottomMargin=23
                    )
ts_tables = [
         ('ALIGN', (4,0), (-1,-1), 'RIGHT'),
         ('LINEBELOW', (0,0), (-1,0), 1, colors.purple),
         ('FONT', (0,0), (-1,0), 'Times-Bold'),
         ('LINEABOVE', (0,-1), (-1,-1), 1, colors.purple),
         ('FONT', (0,-1), (-1,-1), 'Times-Bold'),
         ('BACKGROUND',(1,1),(-2,-2),colors.white),
         ('TEXTCOLOR',(0,0),(1,-1),colors.black),
         ('FONTSIZE', (0,0),(-1,-1), 8), 
         ]

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(0,1000,size=(1000, 4)), columns=list('ABCD'))
lista = [df.columns[:,].values.astype(str).tolist()] + df.values.tolist()

#Here is where you put repeatRows=1
table = reportlab.platypus.Table(lista, colWidths=(20*mm, 20*mm, 20*mm, 20*mm),repeatRows=1)
table_style = reportlab.platypus.TableStyle(ts_tables)
table.setStyle(table_style)
elements = []
elements.append(table)

# Build the PDF
pdf_file.build(elements)
print reportoutputfilepath