How do I output lists as a table in Jupyter notebook?

Question

I know that I\'ve seen some example somewhere before but for the life of me I cannot find it when googling around.

I have some rows of data:

data = [[1,2         


        

Answer 1

I recently used prettytable for rendering a nice ASCII table. It's similar to the postgres CLI output.

import pandas as pd
from prettytable import PrettyTable

data = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['one', 'two', 'three'])

def generate_ascii_table(df):
    x = PrettyTable()
    x.field_names = df.columns.tolist()
    for row in df.values:
        x.add_row(row)
    print(x)
    return x

generate_ascii_table(df)

Output:

+-----+-----+-------+
| one | two | three |
+-----+-----+-------+
|  1  |  2  |   3   |
|  4  |  5  |   6   |
|  7  |  8  |   9   |
+-----+-----+-------+