atelier.rstgen

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A suite of utilities to programmatically generate chunks of reStructuredText.

Especially the table() function is used by the complextable directive and by Table.to_rst. Here we present the raw API.

Usage examples

Here is the data we are going to render into different tables:

>>> headers = ["Country", "City", "Name"]
>>> rows = []
>>> rows.append(["Belgium","Eupen","Gerd"])
>>> rows.append(["Estonia","Vigala","Luc"])
>>> rows.append(["St. Vincent and the Grenadines","Chateaubelair","Nicole"])

The simplest case of table():

Code	Result
>>> from atelier.rstgen import table >>> print(table(headers,rows)) ================================ =============== ======== Country City Name -------------------------------- --------------- -------- Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole ================================ =============== ========	Country City Name Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole

A table without headers:

Code	Result
>>> print(table(headers,rows,show_headers=False)) ================================ =============== ======== Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole ================================ =============== ========	Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole

You might prefer to use directly the Table class:

Code	Result
>>> from atelier.rstgen import Table >>> t = Table(headers) >>> print(t.to_rst(rows)) ================================ =============== ======== Country City Name -------------------------------- --------------- -------- Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole ================================ =============== ========	Country City Name Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole

If there is at least one cell that contains a newline character, the result will be a complex table:

Code

Result

>>> rows[2] = ['''St. Vincent ... and the Grenadines''',"Chateaubelair","Nicole"] >>> print(table(headers,rows)) +--------------------+---------------+--------+ | Country | City | Name | +====================+===============+========+ | Belgium | Eupen | Gerd | +--------------------+---------------+--------+ | Estonia | Vigala | Luc | +--------------------+---------------+--------+ | St. Vincent | Chateaubelair | Nicole | | and the Grenadines | | | +--------------------+---------------+--------+

Country City Name Belgium Eupen Gerd Estonia Vigala Luc St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chateaubelair Nicole

Empty tables

A special case is a table with no rows. For table(headers, []) the following output would be logical:

========= ====== ======
 Country   City   Name
--------- ------ ------
========= ====== ======

But Sphinx would consider this a malformed table. That’s why we return a blank line when there are no rows:

>>> print(table(headers, []))

Functions

boldheader(title)
header(level, text)	Render the text as a header with the specified level.
ol(items[, bullet])	>>> print(ol(["Foo", "Bar", "Baz"]))
table(headers[, rows])
ul(items[, bullet])	Render the given items as a bullet list <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#bullet-lists>.
write_header(fd, level, s)

Classes

Column(table, index, header[, width])	A column in a table.
Table(headers[, show_headers])	Renders as a table.