Centered text in matplotlib tables

Question

I am trying to center the text inside a matplotlib table cell, while the default seems to be right aligned. I looked through the documentation of the Table object, but I cou

Answer 1

Try editing the sample here

Adding

cellLoc='center'

To

the_table = plt.table(cellText=cell_text,
                      rowLabels=rows,
                      rowColours=colors,
                      colLabels=columns,
                      loc='bottom')

To get

Answer 2

Another answer which edits the cell's alignment individually, serves this case and a more general one where only arbitrary columns (but not all) are to be centered (or any specific cells to that case).

Let's say you have a 5 rows - 3 columns table. If you want to edit only first column:

the_table = plt.table(cellText=cell_text,
                      rowLabels=rows,
                      rowColours=colors,
                      colLabels=columns,
                      loc='bottom')

cells = the_table.properties()["celld"]
for i in range(0, 5):
    cells[i, 0]._loc = 'center'

I was stuck with this until I took a look at table.py source

Answer 3

According to documentation, there is this metthod in cell object :

set_text_props(self, **kwargs)

kwargs may refers to text methods/attribute, such this one:

horizontalalignment or ha = [ 'center' | 'right' | 'left' ]

So, what about :

cell.set_text_props(ha='center')