#!/usr/bin/env python # coding=utf-8 """A simple example demonstrating the following: 1) How to display tabular data within a cmd2 application 2) How to display output using a pager NOTE: IF the table does not entirely fit within the screen of your terminal, then it will be displayed using a pager. You can use the arrow keys (left, right, up, and down) to scroll around the table as well as the PageUp/PageDown keys. You can quit out of the pager by typing "q". You can also search for text within the pager using "/". WARNING: This example requires the tabulate module. """ import functools from cmd2 import cmd2 import tabulate # Format to use with tabulate module when displaying tables TABLE_FORMAT = 'grid' # Create a function to format a fixed-width table for pretty-printing using the desired table format table = functools.partial(tabulate.tabulate, tablefmt=TABLE_FORMAT) # Population data from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population EXAMPLE_DATA = [['Shanghai', 'Shanghai', 'China', 'Asia', 24183300, 6340.5, 3814], ['Beijing', 'Hebei', 'China', 'Asia', 20794000, 1749.57, 11885], ['Karachi', 'Sindh', 'Pakistan', 'Asia', 14910352, 615.58, 224221], ['Shenzen', 'Guangdong', 'China', 'Asia', 13723000, 1493.32, 9190], ['Guangzho', 'Guangdong', 'China', 'Asia', 13081000, 1347.81, 9705], ['Mumbai', ' Maharashtra', 'India', 'Asia', 12442373, 465.78, 27223], ['Istanbul', 'Istanbul', 'Turkey', 'Eurasia', 12661000, 620.29, 20411], ] EXAMPLE_HEADERS = ['City', 'Province', 'Country', 'Continent', 'Population', 'Area (km^2)', 'Pop. Density (/km^2)'] class TableDisplay(cmd2.Cmd): """Example cmd2 application showing how you can display tabular data.""" def __init__(self): super().__init__() def ptable(self, tabular_data, headers=()): """Format tabular data for pretty-printing as a fixed-width table and then display it using a pager. :param tabular_data: required argument - can be a list-of-lists (or another iterable of iterables), a list of named tuples, a dictionary of iterables, an iterable of dictionaries, a two-dimensional NumPy array, NumPy record array, or a Pandas dataframe. :param headers: (optional) - to print nice column headers, supply this argument: - headers can be an explicit list of column headers - if `headers="firstrow"`, then the first row of data is used - if `headers="keys"`, then dictionary keys or column indices are used - Otherwise, a headerless table is produced """ formatted_table = table(tabular_data, headers=headers) self.ppaged(formatted_table) def do_table(self, _): """Display data on the Earth's most populated cities in a table.""" self.ptable(tabular_data=EXAMPLE_DATA, headers=EXAMPLE_HEADERS) if __name__ == '__main__': app = TableDisplay() app.cmdloop()