prettytable/prettytable
Display tabular data in a visually appealing ASCII table format observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 89
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 27
- age_days: 3884
- days_rel: 72
- days_push: 32
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
1669 stars · 193 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
PrettyTable is a Python library for displaying tabular data in visually appealing ASCII table format. It supports adding rows or columns, importing from CSV/HTML/JSON/SQL, and customizing table appearance.
Use cases
- print ascii tables in python
- format tabular data for terminal output
- display query results as a table
- convert csv data to a formatted table
- pretty print rows and columns in cli tools
When to choose
- you need quick, attractive ASCII table output in a Python script or CLI
- you want to import tabular data from CSV, HTML, JSON, or SQL and render it as text
When to avoid
- you need rich graphical tables in a GUI or web frontend
- you need very large dataset rendering with performance-critical output
Facets
library · maturity stable
developer-tools cli data-visualization developer-tools data-visualization python cross-platform ascii-tables tabular-data terminal-output text-formatting command-line
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/prettytable/prettytable · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3cab332ab25b
- homepage: https://pypi.org/project/PrettyTable/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4b4e8fead74a
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/prettytable/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · ff80b8a645b6
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| prettytable/prettytable | main | 94 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="prettytable/prettytable")
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