cliff-adaptive-table

This package installs a new formatter for cliff, which has the following improvements:

• sensitive to the terminal width
• supports hierarchical data structures
• supports filtering rows (grep) as well as columns
• highly configurable

Installation

Install skipper and then

skipper make
pip install dist/cliff-adaptive-table-*.tar.gz

Modifiers

The modifiers are documented in ADAPTIVE_TABLE_HELP in cliff_adaptive_table/adaptive_table.py and in FILTER_DATA_HELP in cliff_adaptive_table/filter_data.py. The documentation can also be printed by cliff adaptive table itself:

from cliff_adaptive_table import adaptive_table, filter_data

table = adaptive_table.AdaptiveTable()
help = {'Display Modifiers': table().help(),
        'Filter Modifiers': filter_data.FilterData().help()}
print table.format(help)

Usage

To use in a cliff-based CLI, change the format to adaptive_table:

prompt> command [argument [argument...]] [--flag] --format adaptive_table [-m modifier [modifier...]]

Where modifier is in the format name=value.

To use in Python code:

from cliff_adaptive_table import adaptive_table, filter_data

modifiers = ['force-frames=y', 'columns=name|id']

table = adaptive_table.AdaptiveTable()
fd = filter_data.FilterData()
table.parse_modifiers(modifiers)
fd.parse_modifiers(modifiers)
data = fd.filter_data(data)

print table.format(data)